Current development status: v.0.5 Release Candidate 3

TFS Spotlight v.0.5

I'm looking for a tester for this project.

Requirements:

• Willing to use TfsSpotlight on daily basis
• Download and compile latest sources to work on
• Introduce found bugs through issue tracker

Project Description
This is a TFS WorkItem tracking software. It allows users to view TFS projects and queries, run queries and act on WorkItems. This application has highly responsive UI that provides enhanced user experience. It has tabbed UI to facilitate managing of multiple queries and WorkItems.

Disclaimer
This is a personal project that is developed to help me in my daily work with TFS. I'm a C# developer and unfortunately in my project we have a very large solution that takes a long time to build. At builds time I often find myself jobless and I think that that's a good time to manage my work items (particularly in testing phase when I need to manage bugs associated to me). I used to use Fissum http://codeplex.com/Fissum/ but it lacks some functionality. I don't want to rival with Fissum, but as long as it is a closed, personal project, I will be developing my own solution. You may ask why can't you use Team Explorer, but the answer is simple - it's slow... And besides when my project is compiling or I'm getting the latest version from repository it is impossible to use TE.

The second reason to develop this project is to learn. Recently I'v read 'Build your own cab' series from Jeremy D. Miller The Build Your Own CAB Series Table of Contents and I want to check this things on a real project.

I've also written a post describing this project on my blog, but it's in Polish.

Main goals

• Learn how to build composite applications
• Make it easy to manage WorkItems through queries and standard user controls from TFS
• Multiple servers
• Multiple queries
• Multiple WorkItems
• Take usability into account (asynchronous calls, window layout persistance, auto update etc.)

Features

• Managing WorkItems from multiple servers
• Servers defined for Visual Studio 2005/2008 (v.0.1)
• Custom user servers (v.0.4)
• Managing projects and queries
• Displaying all projects and queries (v.0.1)
• Displaying only user selected projects
• Displaying only user selected queries
• Managing multiple elements (tabbed UI)
• Managing multiple queries (v.0.1)
• Managing multiple WorkItems (v.0.3)
• Managing WorkItems (v.0.1)
• Ability to minimize application to system try
• Latest build status
• Shows warning when build breaks and there ware YOUR check-ins built
• High responsiveness of the UI (v.0.1)
• Persisting user preferences (window sizes, splitter position etc.) (v.0.1)
• Auto-update on startup (v.0.2)

Change log view

Requirements

• MS Windows XP (I didn't try other)
• .Net Framework 3.5

Screen v.0.4



Known issues

• Shortcuts with function keys (F*) are not working when the text area on workitem's details form has focus.