Brian Harry introduced the power tools release in his blog . Work Item Templates is a new feature we've added in this latest version of the Power Tools release. In short, Work Item Templates allows you to open a blank work item form, predefine the values...

In previous posts , I introduced on the Dashboard Creator tool that I made in Excel. The most recent post presented an example of where you could pull data from external sources into your dashboard, and display alongside TFS stored data. What I...

In previous posts , I introduced on the Dashboard Creator tool that I made in Excel. In short, the Dashboard Creator takes list data that appears on Excel sheets, and packages it into a dashboard. I proposed you can get that data into the list by using...

Dashboard Creator – Part II In a post last week, I introduced a Excel-based Dashboard Creator I wrote. I gave examples of a dashboard showing counts. For example, the number of bugs assigned to a person. But what if you want to show the sum-total...

First, my thoughts on dashboards. In the many projects I’ve managed I’ve used lots of different dashboards to help communicate to the team what is important. Dashboards are a communication and accountability tool. The problem is, the things that are important...

There is new content on MSDN on building custom reports. Allen Clark has more details about it on his blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsue/archive/2007/08/29/new-content-available-on-creating-custom-reports.aspx