Best TFS Viewer for a Team Lead

Question

Is there a tool that can give you a quick view of all TFS changes across an entire day.

Essentially rather than seeing all of the changes one commit at a time, I'd like to see all the change done over the day. Essentially the viewer merges all the changes into one view. We're using the new VisualStudio.com hosted TFS

Answer 1

Team Foundation Sidekicks is a great tool to use outside of Visual Studio to quickly look at changes and the current status of files.

Here is a breif overview:

• History Sidekick application pane provides the following features:

  View version control tree with files and folders (similar to Source Control Explorer) Search item (file or folder) by name and select found item in version control tree View selected item history either for all users or filtered by user Export history list to CSV file Compare file versions selected in history View selected item properties and pending changes View selected item branches tree and selected branch properties View selected item merge history; it is possible to view separately all merges performed with selected item as a merge target (merges to) or with selected item as a source (merges from)

• Compare merge target and source file versions in history View selected item merge candidates in a tree view; it is possible to select single merge source from the list Compare merge candidate file version with latest version of target file View selected item labels either for all users or filtered by user; the information displayed includes item version in label Compare file versions between two labels View changeset details supported in all lists containing changesets Status Sidekick application pane provides the following features:
• View tree of pending changes filtered by specific user name (user may be selected from list of valid users), TFS project name and change creation date range View lock icon indication in pending changes tree to easily identify locks View detailed list of pending changes in selected folder in tree Customize detailed list format and export list to CSV file Unlock one or more locked files/folders Undo one or more pending changes on files/folders