Visual Studio ALM Community Widgets (aka.ms/widgets)
This page has been retired and has been migrated to our Visual Studio ALM Rangers team blog!
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.
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Categories: Admin, Agile Planning, Azure, Build and Continuous Integration, Coding, Feedback, Migration, Productivity, Source Control, Teams, Testing and Other.
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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 |
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 and Continuous Integration |
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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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 |
MyHistory |
Free |
Visual Studio ALM Rangers My History Team Explorer Extension |
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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 |
Web Essentials |
Mads Kristensen |
Free |
Adds many useful features to Visual Studio for web developers |
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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.
please send candid feedback!
We can’t wait to hear from you, and learn more about other widgets the Rangers should consider. Here are some ways to connect with us:
- Add a comment below.
- Contact me on my blog.
Comments
Anonymous
June 18, 2014
If I'm OK to make a suggestion, I'd like to see Tiago's Task Board Enhancer (pascoal.net/task-board-enhancer) making an appearance. Nice list, some I've not seen before and I'll be checking them out.Anonymous
June 19, 2014
Great post...can I get you to cross post to the ALM Blog? Thanks Man! ChuckAnonymous
June 19, 2014
@Chuck, done: blogs.msdn.com/.../visual-studio-alm-community-widgets-aka-ms-widgets.aspx. That post will be a once-off and points back to aka.ms/widgets (this) for the latest.Anonymous
August 19, 2014
Thank you very much for this list!Anonymous
April 05, 2015
Can we have automatic refresh feature in Backlog ?