List of interesting open source project for TFS hosted on Codeplex

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Some times ago I blogged a series of links of useful tools for TFS. Today I want to give you a series of Codeplex Project of useful tools. These tools are not only useful to use, but they are invaluable example of using TFS API, so they deserves a special list of their own. It is not a comprehensive list, but it contains some of the most interesting project that you can find on Codeplex.

TFS Team Project Manager: Another administration tool that has awesome capability, such as comparing process templates. A must have.

Team Foundation Server AdmInistration Tool: Helps administration of TFS, expecially regarding permissions across Reporting and Sharepoint

Community TFS Build Extensions. Nice sets of Build extension for TFS Build

Tfs Workbench: Rich interface to help scrum master in tfs 2010

Tfs integration platform: the most complete tools to keep instances of TFS in sync

Tfs Event Workflow: Permits to execute workflows based on workflow foundation triggered by specific events of TFS.

Team Foundation Server Explorer: Permits a completely indipendent browsing of all the files and workspaces

TFS Deployer: Automatically trigger powershell script to deploy environments

TFS 2010 Merge Work Items Handler: A server side event handler for TFS 2010 that automatically associates the work items that were associated with the merge sources, e.g. the changesets in the source branch.

TFS Global Alerts: Extend the basic ablitity to manage alerting in TFS from visual studio

TFS History visualizer: Nice addin to have a good visualization of history inside visual studio

TFS Membership Visualizer: Produce a graphical diagram of groups and user inside Team Foundation Server

TFS Projects: Another useful tool to visualize users.

lists all users for each project for all collections or a specified collection or for only one project within a collection and their roles for a TFS installation.

TFS Spam: If you want to receive an email with diffs for each check-in made in TFS (useful for production branches)

TFS Submit: Some useful function to create review in TFS2010 as well as managing shelveset

Happy TFS.