Top 100 Utilities & Addins for Visual Studio 2010 & TFS 2010
Since the release of Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010, many tools & utilities have been released by the Open Source Community, Partners and Microsoft. The best place to discover these is via the Visual Studio Extensions Gallery, but others like CodePlex and the MSDN site also will serve you well. In the hope it accelerates your project or adoption of Visual Studio & TFS, I've jotted down my Top 100 or so that have risen to the top for me:
If you'd like to check out the additional info & links to each, here's the full Excel spreadsheet.
| Focus | Applicability | Utility | Publisher |
| All | All | Visual Studio Team System 2010 Power Tools | Microsoft |
| All | Team Foundation Server | TFS Power Tools | Microsoft |
| All | Team Foundation Server | Scrum Template for Team System | CodePlex |
| All | Team Foundation Server | TFS Aggregator for field calculations | CodePlex |
| All | Team Foundation Server | TFS Scorecard | CodePlex |
| All | Team Foundation Server | TFS Sidekicks | Attrice |
| All | Team Foundation Server | TFS Integration - QC, IBM etc. | Microsoft |
| Architecture | Visual Studio | Visual Studio Spec Explorer Power Tool | Microsoft |
| Architecture | Visual Studio | Visual Studio Feature Builder Power Tool | Microsoft |
| Architecture | Visual Studio | PoshBoard Visual Designer for Powershell | CodePlex |
| Architecture | Oracle | Oracle Command Visualizer for Visual Studio | CodePlex |
| Architecture | Expression | Sketchflow Template for Windows Phone | CodePlex |
| Builds | Team Foundation Server | TFS Build Extensions Power Tool | Microsoft |
| Builds | Visual Studio | NDepend TFS 2010 Integration | CodePlex |
| Builds | Team Foundation Server | SharePoint/TFS Continuous Integration Starter Pack | CodePlex |
| Builds | Team Foundation Server | Automated Versioning for Automated TFS Builds | CodePlex |
| Builds | Team Foundation Server | MSBuild Launch Pad | CodePlex |
| Builds | Team Foundation Server | Team Build Deployer | CodePlex |
| Builds | Team Foundation Server | Team Build Screen | CodePlex |
| Coding | Visual Studio | Visual Studio Code Metrics Power Tool | Microsoft |
| Coding | Visual Studio | FxCop Integrator for Visual Studio 2010 | CodePlex |
| Coding | Visual Studio | Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone | CodePlex |
| Coding | Dynamics CRM | JavaScript Web Resource Manager for CRM 2011 | CodePlex |
| Coding | Visual Studio | All-in-One Code Framework | CodePlex |
| Coding | Visual Studio | JSLint for Visual Studio 2010 | CodePlex |
| Coding | Visual Studio | Custom SharePoint 2010 Master Page Project Template | CodePlex |
| Coding | Visual Studio | Project Silk for Cross-Browser HTML5 Applications | CodePlex |
| Coding | SharePoint | SharePoint Ribbon Manager Webpart | CodePlex |
| Coding | SharePoint | Site Directory for SharePoint 2010 | CodePlex |
| Coding | Visual Studio | Python Tools for Visual Studio | CodePlex |
| Coding | Visual Studio | Isolated Storage Explorer for WPMango | CodePlex |
| Coding | SharePoint | Active Directory Password Change for SP 2010 | CodePlex |
| Coding | Visual Studio | XAML Markup Styler Visual Studio 2010 Extension | CodePlex |
| Coding | Visual Studio | PowerGUI Visual Studio Extension | CodePlex |
| Coding | SharePoint | Community Kit for SP2010 Dev Tools Edition | CodePlex |
| Coding | Visual Studio | Credit Card Number Generator | CodePlex |
| Coding | Visual Studio | PowerShell WPF Template | CodePlex |
| Coding | Visual Studio | SocialShare Starter Kit | CodePlex |
| Coding | Visual Studio | SmartPaster 2010 | CodePlex |
| Coding | SharePoint | AreaProg Toolbox for SharePoint | CodePlex |
| Coding | Visual Studio | Simple MVVM Toolkit for Silverlight, WPF, WP7 | CodePlex |
| Coding | SharePoint | Custom Master Page Feature | CodePlex |
| Coding | Visual Studio | Resx Resource Translator (multi-lingual tool) | CodePlex |
| Coding | Visual Studio | ESRI ArcGIS Silverlight Toolkit | CodePlex |
| Coding | Visual Studio | goTranslateIt for Bing APIs | CodePlex |
| Coding | Visual Studio | Entity Framework Linq Query Analyzer | CodePlex |
| Coding | Visual Studio | Snippet Designer | CodePlex |
| Coding | Visual Studio | Instant Feature Builder | CodePlex |
| Coding | SharePoint | SharePoint 2010 BDC Model Builder | CodePlex |
| Coding | SharePoint | Customer Care Portal - SP2010 for Internet Sites | CodePlex |
| Coding | Expression | Silverlight Template for US Map by State | CodePlex |
| Collaboration & Productivity | Visual Studio | Visual Studio Productivity Power Tool | Microsoft |
| Collaboration & Productivity | Visual Studio | Visual Studio SharePoint Power Tools | Microsoft |
| Collaboration & Productivity | Outlook | TeamLook | Team Solutions |
| Collaboration & Productivity | Outlook | Team Companion | Ekobit |
| Collaboration & Productivity | Visual Studio | Scrum Board Task Card Printer | CodePlex |
| Collaboration & Productivity | BizTalk | Continuous Integration for BizTalk Server | CodePlex |
| Collaboration & Productivity | Team Foundation Server | TFS Workbench | CodePlex |
| Collaboration & Productivity | SharePoint | SharePoint 2010 List Kit | CodePlex |
| Collaboration & Productivity | Team Foundation Server | Visual Work Item Progress | CodePlex |
| Collaboration & Productivity | Team Foundation Server | Social TFS | CodePlex |
| Collaboration & Productivity | Team Foundation Server | TFS Work Item Collaborator for Microsoft Lync | CodePlex |
| Collaboration & Productivity | Visual Studio | SpecFlow TFS Linker | CodePlex |
| Collaboration & Productivity | Visual Studio | Jabber VSTalk | CodePlex |
| Collaboration & Productivity | Team Foundation Server | TFS Collaboration Providers | CodePlex |
| Guidance & Best Practices | All | Visual Studio 2010 Help Downloader | CodePlex |
| Guidance & Best Practices | Visual Studio | Windows Azure Guidance | CodePlex |
| Guidance & Best Practices | Visual Studio | Enterprise Library | CodePlex |
| Guidance & Best Practices | BizTalk | BizTalk Software Factory | CodePlex |
| Guidance & Best Practices | Visual Studio | Performance Testing Quick Reference Guide | CodePlex |
| Guidance & Best Practices | Team Foundation Server | VSTS Rangers Lab Management Guide | CodePlex |
| Guidance & Best Practices | Team Foundation Server | VSTS Rangers Build Customization Guide | CodePlex |
| Guidance & Best Practices | Team Foundation Server | VSTS Rangers Virtual Machine Factory | CodePlex |
| Guidance & Best Practices | Team Foundation Server | VSTS Rangers Requirements Management | CodePlex |
| Guidance & Best Practices | Team Foundation Server | VSTS Rangers Branching Guide | CodePlex |
| Guidance & Best Practices | Visual Studio | VSTS Rangers VStudio 2010 Quick Reference Guide | CodePlex |
| Guidance & Best Practices | Team Foundation Server | CVS to TFS Converter | Timely Migration |
| Guidance & Best Practices | Team Foundation Server | HP ALM Synchronizer | HP |
| Guidance & Best Practices | Team Foundation Server | HP QC Synchronizer | HP |
| Guidance & Best Practices | Team Foundation Server | StarTeam to TFS Converter | Timely Migration |
| Guidance & Best Practices | Team Foundation Server | SVN to TFS Converter | Timely Migration |
| Guidance & Best Practices | Team Foundation Server | HP QC Bug Item Synchronizer | Juvander Consulting |
| Guidance & Best Practices | Team Foundation Server | TFS Rapid Migration from HP QC | Sela International |
| Infrastructure | SharePoint | SharePoint 2010 Warmup | CodePlex |
| Infrastructure | SQL | SQL Azure Migration Wizard | CodePlex |
| Infrastructure | SQL | SQL Server Compact Toolbox for Visual Studio | CodePlex |
| Infrastructure | Team Foundation Server | MSBuild TransformConfig for Visual Studio | CodePlex |
| Infrastructure | Team Foundation Server | Subversion 6.x to TFS Migration Tool | CodePlex |
| Infrastructure | Team Foundation Server | TFS 2010 Warehouse Updater | CodePlex |
| Infrastructure | Team Foundation Server | TFS 2010 Admistrative Reports | CodePlex |
| Requirements Management | Word | TeamSpec | Team Solutions |
| Resource Management | Team Foundation Server | TX Chrono | Team Expand |
| Testing | Visual Studio | Pex and Moles Power Tool | Microsoft |
| Testing | Excel | Test Case Migrator Plus | CodePlex |
| Testing | Visual Studio | QTP TFS Generic Test Integration | CodePlex |
| Testing | Test Manager | TFS Test Steps Editor | CodePlex |
| Testing | Visual Studio | Silverlight Test Automation Tool | CodePlex |
| Testing | Visual Studio | BizMock for testing BizTalk Solutions in Vstudio | CodePlex |
| Testing | Team Foundation Server | Source Code Analysis Check-In Policy using StyleCop & NETFX 35 | CodePlex |
| Testing | Word | TFS Test Plans Word Addin | CodePlex |
| Testing | Team Foundation Server | Export Test Case Work Items to Excel | CodePlex |
| Testing | Visual Studio | Web & Load Test Plugins for VS Test Professional | CodePlex |
| Version Control | Team Foundation Server | TFS MSSCCI Provider | Microsoft |
| Work Item Management | Outlook | TeamBox | Team Solutions |
| Work Item Management | Visual Studio | TFS Embed Work Items in Comments Addin | CodePlex |
| Work Item Management | All | Fissum - A TFS Tray Icon Client | CodePlex |
Comments
- Anonymous
October 28, 2011
Great list! Thanks for compiling this. There are so many great tools and utilities it is probably hard to keep it to just 100. Team Review is another great tool that is used for code reviews. - Anonymous
November 08, 2011
Thanks for sharing this list. I created a testing tool this past weekend to Bulk Copy Test Cases that can be found here visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/72576517-821b-46c2-aa1a-fab940752292Keep up the great work!