Get Team Foundation Sidekicks 2.1!
Only three months after release of version 2.0, we made available the next version of Team Foundation Sidekicks. And even though it is labeled 2.1 it contains lots of bug fixes and some important features.
Features
- Code Review Sidekick: code review by work item is available (selecting changesets through associated work items)
- Code Review Sidekick: list of associated work items is available for changesets reviewed
- Code Review Sidekick: filtering of items revisions list by user or file name is available
- Shelveset Sidekick: saving of the contents for the whole shelveset is supported
- Labels Sidekick, History Sidekick, Code Review Sidekick: View changeset details is supported for all lists containing changesets
- Visual Studio integration: all Sidekicks are available in stand-alone application are available in Visual Studio (through Tools->Team Foundation Sidekicks menu)
- Visual Studio integration: operations on build types are supported for TFS 2008 custom build type files locations
Bug fixes
- BUGFIX: to configure Sidekicks on Vista requires administrative priviliges. In 2.1 we made a change to use Documents and Settings folder for user-specific configuration
- BUGFIX: VSIP for VS 2008 generates error on load in Output toolwindow
- BUGFIX: VSIP dynamic history enabled together with auto-hide History toolwindow may lead to intermittent error messages
- BUGFIX: When installing on workstation with VS2005 and VS2008, only VS2008 version of VSIP gets registered
- BUGFIX: Multiple selection with keyboard on certain lists is not possible
- UI improvements
The features and bugs fixed in this release were mainly driven by the community (as we got huge amount of feedback after 2.0 release). Thanks for bug spotting and feature suggestions go to Arnold Jan van der Burg, James Glenn, Grant Holiday, David Jansen, Jeff Walsh, Chris McLeod, Nathan Cripps, Ryan Adler, Sam Gardiner, Vaas Rudolf, Gary Winningham and Martin Huser. And this release could not happen without Roman Klevcov and Nikolay Surdo working on it in "trenches".
As always, let us have a piece of your mind through the blog or by email (to tfs_at_attrice_dot_info).