By the power of Grayskull!
If you spend as much time as I do in Visual Studio TF, there are certain things you may find a tad bit frustrating : timeouts, connecting to the server, etc. Fortunately the Visual Studio guys/gals have come up with a set of power tools which you can download here :
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools - December 2007 Release
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7574836F-4A0B-454F-A340-85DA4698177C&displaylang=en
Included of note
- Build Notification System Tray tool
- TFS Best Practices Analyzer
- tfpt command line tool
The TFPT command line tool is pretty nice, it includes something called TweakUI, which allows you to set things like timeouts, whether or not to connect to the server on startup, and concurrent connections to the server.
I also find the build system tray tool pretty useful, so you're always aware of the build state.
