Some Useful TFS Customization Resources

Over the last few days, I've been trying to get my TFS system upgraded with some customizations that members of my team have requested. TFS is a very well-designed system, but unfortunately the out-of-the-box process of customizing your processes leaves a little to be desired.

It took me a couple hours of tinkering, but I figured out how to add some new statuses to the MSF for Agile templates, as well as new fields and UI for tracking the steps to reproduce a bug. I'll be posting those modifications in a bit, but in the meantime, I've assembled some of the resources that I found helpful on my Custom TFS templating journey. I hope they're useful.

• Bulk editing work items using TFS Power Tools "templates"
• One method of adding new statuses without breaking reports
• Dave McKinstry's Guide to TFS Process Customization

And some other cool TFS Stuff:

• Vista Sidebar Gadgets for TFS
• TeamDef - Time Management for TFS
• CoDE Magazine - Data Dude Meets Team Build
• Microsoft Office Requirements Authoring Starter Kit (using structured Word documents to populate a TFS database with requirements and work items)

I'm stepping up the use of TFS on my team for project management, so as I come across more resources that I find useful, I'll post them.