VS and TFS community widgets (aka.ms/widgets)
Based on popular demand, we have restarted a list of cool, productive and recommended community widgets for Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server recommended by the Visual Studio ALM Rangers.
community widgets
Categories: Admin, Agile Planning, Azure, Build and Continuous Integration, Coding, Feedback, Migration, Productivity, Source Control, Teams, Testing and Other.
CATEGORY |
WIDGET |
OWNER |
COST |
DESCRIPTION |
URL |
Administration |
Team Foundation Sidekicks |
Attrice Corporation |
Free |
Team Foundation Sidekicks is a suite of tools for Microsoft Team Foundation Server administrators. |
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Administration |
TFS Admin Dashboard | François Bouteruche | Free | The TFS Admin Dashboard project is an attempt to provide to TFS administrators a tool to get an overview of the content of their TFS platform. | |
Administration |
TFS Administration Tool |
Community |
Free |
The TFS Administration Tool allows Team Foundation Server administrators to manage user permissions on TFS, SharePoint and Reporting Services |
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Administration |
TFS Administrators Toolkit for VS 2013 |
Free |
A collection of tools to assist the TFS Administrator |
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Administration |
TFS Event Manager |
Jelle Druyts |
Free |
Allows you to manage Team Foundation Server event subscriptions as well as help troubleshoot event job processing. |
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Administration |
TFS Power Tools |
Microsoft |
Free |
Power Tools are a set of enhancements, tools, and command-line utilities that increase productivity of Team Foundation Server scenarios |
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| Administration | TFS Refresh Warehouse | Neno Loje | Free | Refresh TFS Warehouse, Cube and Reports on demand | DOWNLOAD |
Administration |
TFS Storage Explorer |
Jelle Druyts |
Free |
Allows browsing the Team Foundation Server (non-version control) storage for TFS 2013 or above. |
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Administration |
TFS Team Project Manager |
Jelle Druyts |
Free |
Automates various tasks across Team Projects in Team Foundation Server. |
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| Administration | TFS Warehouse Utility | Benjamin Day | Free | Help manage rebuilding the Team Foundation Server 2010-2012 data warehouse. | DOWNLOAD |
| Administration | TFS WitAdminUI | Ana Roje Ivancic | Free | Helps you by automatically generating commands based on the project collection and team project you are connected to. |
DOWNLOAD |
Agile Planning |
Associate Recent Work Items |
Free |
Visual Studio Extension that allows you to easily associate changeset with your recent work items |
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Agile Planning |
Flight Plan Board |
Free |
An innovative visualisation project, part of the ALM Rangers Community and their continuous visualisation and technology research and collaboration initiative. |
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Agile Planning |
Task Card Creator |
Community |
Free |
Small tool for printing task cards used for a Scrum board. Your Scrum board will be looking impressive. |
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Agile Planning |
Test Scribe |
VSTS Quality Tools |
Free |
Test Scribe is a documentation power tool designed to construct documents directly from the TFS for test plan and test run artefacts for the purpose of discussion, reporting etc.. |
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Agile Planning |
TFS 2013 Merge Work Items Event Handler |
Free |
TFS Server Plugin that automatically associate merged changesets with the associate work items from the merged branches |
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Agile Planning |
TFS Aggregator |
Community |
Free |
Server side plugin for TFS that enables dynamic calculation of field values in TFS. (For example: Dev work + Test Work = Total Work). |
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Agile Planning |
TFS Agile Poker |
Free |
TFS Agile Poker is a free cross platform tool for distributed and co-located teams to point your Team Foundation Server backlog. |
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Agile Planning |
TFS Kanban Tabular Model |
Jeff Levinson |
Free |
report on Kanban data through Excel Services or Power View and makes the data accessible outside of Team Foundation Server. |
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Agile Planning |
TFS Work Item Manager and TFS Project Dashboard |
Telerik |
Free |
Work item and Project Management Dashboard |
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Agile Planning |
TFS Workbench |
Community |
Free |
TFS Workbench is a rich desktop UI providing access to your Team Foundation Server Projects for primarily managing work items |
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Agile Planning |
Work Item Field History |
Free |
Audits a specific field of a work item, showing only the revisions in which its value has changed. |
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Agile Planning |
Work Item Glass |
Pointe Smart |
Free |
Work Item Glass is an alternate client for Team Foundation Server whose target audience consists of those team members not in a traditional Developer role such . |
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| Build | AppVeyor Extension | Utkarsh Shigihalli and Tarun Arora | Free | Manage your AppVeyor builds from Visual Studio. | DOWNLOAD |
Build |
Community TFS Build Extensions |
Community |
Free |
The Community TFS Build Extensions is a collection of workflow activities, build process template files, PowerShell scripts and tools for Team Foundation Build provided by the community. |
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| Build | Export as PDF | Free | Export build definition as neatly formatted PDF. View all your build defintion details at once instead of navigating between steps or tabs. | DOWNLOAD | |
| Build | New Relic Record Deployment | Shmulik Ahituv | Free | New Build/Release task to record deployment event securely to your New Relic account with a new dedicated endpoint type. | DOWNLOAD |
| Extensions | VSTS Extension Project Template |
Josh Garverick | Free | This extension contains a Visual Studio project template supplying you with everything you need to create a Visual Studio Online extension. | DOWNLOAD |
Migration |
TFS Work Item Morphing |
Free |
Purpose of this tool is to perform “In Place Conversion” of data from one format to another. |
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Productivity |
{} StyleCop |
Community |
Free |
StyleCop analyzes C# source code to enforce a set of style and consistency rules. |
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Productivity |
CodeLens Code Health Indicator |
Microsoft |
Free |
Shows information about code being edited. | 2013 2015 |
| Productivity | Egg Timer | Free | Instead of closing everything to stop notifications why not just stop notifications. The extension aims to help you quickly slip into a "leave me alo... | DOWNLOAD | |
| Productivity | Enhance Export | Free | Export work item queries and test plans to word direct from the web, without client installs and moving templates files between computers. |
DOWNLOAD | |
Productivity |
My History |
Free |
Visual Studio ALM Rangers My History Team Explorer Extension |
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| Productivity | Requirements Integrator | Josh Garverick | Free | A requirements management and integration tool for Visual Studio Team Services. |
DOWNLOAD |
| Productivity | Scrum Report | Mikael Krief, Vlatko Ivanovski |
Free | Scrum report for your daily scrums. |
DOWNLOAD |
| Productivity | State visualization of work items | Free | Add the ability to view the state model for a selected work item type. |
DOWNLOAD | |
| Productivity | Team Rooms Summary | Free | Shows a summary of the activity in all the team rooms that you are a part of. |
DOWNLOAD | |
| Productivity | Toggl Button | Free | VSO and toggl.com integration. |
DOWNLOAD | |
Productivity |
TFS Board Enhancer |
Tiago Pascoal |
Free |
Adds features to TFS existing task board and kanban board that can be used on a day by day basis making it use easier. |
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Productivity |
VS Commands for Visual Studio |
Jarek Kardas |
Free |
VS Commands for Visual Studio |
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| Productivity | VSO Status Inspector | Free | Inspect status of Visual Studio Online inside Visual Studio | DOWNLOAD | |
Productivity |
Web Essentials |
Mads Kristensen |
Free |
Adds many useful features to Visual Studio for web developers |
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| Productivity | Welcome Email | Free | Send a welcome email to an individual or the entire team. |
DOWNLOAD | |
Productivity |
WiX Toolset |
Community |
Free |
The most powerful set of tools available to create your Windows installation experience. |
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Source Control |
Branch Info TE Extension (BITE) for VS |
Colin D |
Free |
Branch Information Team Explorer (BITE) Extension for VS 2013 RC shows which branch (if any) the open solution is on. |
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Source Control |
Code Compare |
DevArt |
Free |
Compare and merge differing files and folders. Ships both as a standalone file diff tool and a Visual Studio extension. |
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Source Control |
Team Explorer Auto Associate Merge for 2012 |
Nishit Shah |
Free |
Merges changesets between branches and associates work items/comments from original changeset |
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Source Control |
TFS Branch Tool |
Free |
Tool to automate branching task in the ALM Rangers branching guidance |
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Source Control |
TFS Source Control Explorer Extension |
Holan Jan |
Free |
Visual Studio Extension for Team Foundation Server Source Control Explorer |
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Source Control |
TFS Workspaces Cleaner |
Jelle Druyts |
Free |
Deletes Team Foundation Server workspaces that have not been accessed in a number of days, along with their files locally on disk. |
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Teams |
TFS Team Rooms |
Free |
Access team rooms inside Visual Studio. |
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Teams |
TFS Team Tool |
Free |
Command line utility to manage TFS Teams |
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Testing |
Chutzpah Test Adapter for the Test Explorer |
Matthew Manela |
Free |
Chutzpah adapter for the Visual Studio Unit Test Explorer.Enables you to run JavaScript unit tests from the command line and from inside of Visual Studio. |
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Testing |
NUnit Test Adapter |
Charlie Poole |
Free |
NUnit adapter for integrated test execution under Visual Studio. Compatible with NUnit 2.0 through 2.6.3. |
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Testing |
Test Case Import Utility |
Community |
Free |
Test Case Migrator Plus tool allows test related artefacts, present in Excel and MHT/Word formats, to be imported into Team Foundation Server. |
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Testing |
xUnit.net runner for Visual Studio |
Brad Wilson |
Free |
xUnit.net is a unit testing tool for the .NET Framework. |
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Other |
News |
Free |
Get Visual Studio Online news and updates inside Visual Studio. |
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Other |
TFS Alert Events DSL Processor |
Free |
This framework is designed to ease the development of these bespoke SOAP wen services by providing helper methods for common XML processing steps and API operations. |
other lists
- Directory of common test tools and utilities, by Charles Sterling.
- My must-have extensions for Visual Studio 2013, by Jesse Houwing.
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Comments
Anonymous
April 22, 2015
This is a really handy (and comprehensive!) list of tools. The new format looks great as well.Anonymous
June 09, 2015
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June 09, 2015
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June 10, 2015
@Ana, done! Thanks for lighting up the widget.