Posts Tagged ‘TFS’

Team Foundation Server from within Eclipse

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

I was trying to integrate a Java project with TFS, using Eclipse and Teamprise. Teamprise is a suite of client applications that includes an Eclipse plug-in for accessing Team Foundation Server.

In general the plug-in works remarkably well (in fact, I think it works better than Visual Studio with Team Explorer!). It’s really stable (thanks to Eclipse) and several options are easier to access than in Visual Studio.

Pros

Integration with the source repository is complete and limited only by TFS (you can still use the Team Synchronizing perspective or you can use the new ‘Pending Changes’ view). Some particularly interesting characteristics are the shelving feature, check-in policies, and the ability to associate changesets with specific tasks, bugs or any other work item type, providing a higher level of traceability. You can develop and deploy your own policies, although you have to install them in all clients.

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