TeamPilgrim

A replacement for Visual Studio 2012's Team Explorer inspired by the Visual Studio 2010's Team Explorer

After becoming familiar with the Team Foundation Server tools in Visual Studio 2010, a lot of people experience some... frustration... after migrating to Visual Studio 2012.

http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/2654486-vs11-bring-back-the-old-pending-changes-window?page=1

http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/3139212-improve-ui-workflows-for-team-explorer-especially

http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/2640669-make-it-easier-to-find-related-work-items-for-pend

http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/2297232-allow-pending-changes-to-appear-in-it-s-own-window

http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/3266095-visual-studio-2012-tfs-pending-changed

Update 1/31/2013

I started TeamPilgrim in September of 2012. The first release was 2 months later in November. 3 months later TeamPilgrim is a pretty cool program. I'd say it covers 2/3s of the functionality in the old Team Explorer. Enough to make my day to day usage happy, but alas, I no longer have TFS in my organization and my passion for pushing TeamPilgrim further is waning. So I'm going to slap a GPLv3 on this ship and let her sail. It's been fun, and I'm sure you can drag me out to fix a bug or two.

You can find the source code to TeamPilgrim on github (ironically, possibly incestuously).

https://github.com/StanleyGoldman/TeamPilgrim

Contact

Twitter: TeamPilgrim

Twitter: stan_programmer

Bug Reports

If you would like to report a bug, be sure to include the log.
The log can be found at:
C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Local\TeamPilgrim\teampilgrim.log

Please use the Q&A section, and please leave a twitter handle or an email so i can get back to you quickly.

Changelog

• 0.1.0
  • Initial Release
• 0.1.1
  • Removed license dialog
  • Menu items under tools now function properly
  • Pending Changes Functionality
    • View File
    • Undo Pending Change
    • Compare with Previous/Latest/Workspace
• 0.1.2
  • Fixed Compare Latest/Workspace Bugs
  • Removed Compare with Previous Function
  • Added 'Connecting to..' display to Team Pilgrim Explorer
• 0.1.3
  • Added some basic logging
  • Added spacebar & mouse multiselect functionality to Team Pilgrim Pending Changes
  • Added functionality to open work items from Team Pilgrim Pending Changes
  • Added enter key responsiveness to pending changes and work items in Team Pilgrim Pending Changes
  • Expanded project collection and project nodes by default in Team Pilgrim Explorer
  • Added enter key responsiveness to work item defintion, build definition, source control nodes in Team Pilgrim Explorer
• 0.1.4
  • Completed Context Menus of Project & Project Collection Nodes
  • Added Settings Page
  • Added Setting to control default Work Item Association Action
  • Added functionality to switch active project context when using Team Pilgrim Explorer
  • Bugfix: Prevent improper Evaluate Checkin
  • Bugfix: Multi select crash
• 0.1.5
  • Migrated settings to ini file
  • Functionality to remember previously used work item queries in pending changes
  • Functionality to filter pending changes by active solution
  • Functionality to default to Team Explorer's last active workspace
  • Bugfix: Clear workspace list on server connection
  • Bugfix: Checkin performance improvements
• 0.1.6
  • Bugfix: Refresh Pending Changes error
  • Bugfix: Pending Change multiple rename error
  • Bugfix: Refresh Pending Changes Work Items error
• 0.1.7
  • Shelve change functionality
  • Minor startup performance improvement
  • Better (not perfect) column sizing in pending changes grid
  • Removed Team Members and Reports nodes until they actually function
• 0.1.8
  • Bugfix: Dispatcher thread bugfix: Dispatcher exception when operating outside TeamPilgrim
  • Bugfix: Filter Solution Bugfix
  • Bugfix: Display work item query bugfix: Saved columns are now displayed
  • Functionality to filter by open solution in Shelve Changes Dialog
• 0.1.9
  • Added layout manager to handle the sizing of GridViewColumns
  • Added sorting functionality to GridViews
  • Isolated Pending Changes/Work Items checkboxes in seperate column
  • Added Select/Unselect all functionality for Pending Changes
  • Utilized the VS2012 Modern Image Library to look more like Visual Studio 2012
  • Added tooltips to Pending Changes Toggle Buttons
  • Improved change type descriptions
  • Bugfix: Upon initial display of tool panels components were proportioned improperly
  • Bugfix: Filter pending changes by open solution fails on solution folders
  • Bugfix: Filter pending changes by open solution fails when projects aren't fully loaded
  • Bugfix: Filter pending changes by open solution fails on solution folders
  • Bugfix: ListView virtualization reduces memory usages
• 0.2.0
  • Functionality to Unshelve Changes
  • Functionality to display linked work item queries in work item selection list
  • Functionality to sort work item list in Pending Changes & Shelve Dialog
  • Added type specific work item icons to Explorer
  • Added icons to tree in Select Work Item Query Dialog
  • Bugfix: Pending changes should be selected by default
  • Bugfix: Multiple resort on Pending Changing list load
  • Bugfix: Corrected change type descriptions
  • Bugfix: Update selected pending changes summary on Shelve dialog initial display
  • Bugfix: Explorer refresh causes hang/crash
  • Bugfix: Reload of work items causes near hang/crash
• 0.2.1
  • Functionality to Populate models in a background thread
  • Moved log and ini file to C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Local\TeamPilgrim
  • Bugfix: Various initialization fixes