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Updated Wiki: Home

nuwanda — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:31:42 GMT

Current development status: v.0.7.9 (0.8 Beta)

TFS Spotlight v.0.7.9 (0.8 Beta)

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 WorkItem

Change log view
Shortcuts view

Requirements

MS Windows XP (I didn't try other)
.Net Framework 3.5
Team Explorer 2005

Screen v.0.7

Known issues

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

Updated Wiki: Home

nuwanda — Sun, 10 May 2009 14:02:00 GMT

Current development status: v.0.7.9 (0.8 Beta)

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

Screen v.0.7

Known issues

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

Updated Wiki: Home

nuwanda — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:44:38 GMT

Current development status: v.0.7 Final release

TFS Spotlight v.0.7

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 WorkItem

Change log view
Shortcuts view

Requirements

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

Screen v.0.7

Known issues

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

Updated Wiki: shortcuts

nuwanda — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:43:59 GMT

The following shortcuts work for the application

Main window

Shortcut	Action	Version
F10	Exit application	0.2
Control + G	Activate go to workitem command (set focus to text box on a tool bar)	0.3
F4	Toggle servers panel	0.5
Control + H	Toggle history panel	0.6

Query tab

Shortcut	Action	Version
F5	Refresh query	0.2
Shift + F5	Refresh workitem details	0.2
Control + S	Save workitem	0.2
Control + Shift + S	Save all workitems	0.2
Control + W	Copy ID of a currently selected workitem to clipboard	0.4

Workitem tab

Shortcut	Action	Version
F5	Refresh workitem	0.2
Control + S	Save workitem	0.2
Control + W	Copy ID of a workitem to clipboard	0.4

Updated Wiki: changelog

nuwanda — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:30:49 GMT

TFS Spotlight v.0.7

Features

Visualizing queries on charts
Splash screen that shows when the application loads
Removed TfsSpotlight.Startes.exe executable because it is no longer needed.

TFS Spotlight v.0.6

Features

New Look&Feel
Added 'History panel' that tracks operations made on work items (opening details, creating, editing).
Added possibility to search for work items that include a given string in title or description.

TFS Spotlight v.0.5

Features

Work item creation
Improved servers management

Issues

Now refresh command is active after saving new work item
Now the user can open multiple new work item forms
Now the result grid is not scrolled so that the selected row is first from the top

TFS Spotlight v.0.4

Features

Servers settings introduced

Ability to manage servers (add, remove)
Ability to define a user friendly name
Ability to mark a server so that the application will connect to it on startup

You can get current work item's ID by invoking Control + W shortcut (for a complete list of shortcuts see full shortcuts list).
Unhandled exception dialog box introduced

You can submit exception information via email. This process does not reveal any of your personal data.

Issues

Now work item's details form is disabled when there was an error when retrieving work item's data.

TFS Spotlight v.0.3

Features

Go to work item command placed on a toollbar allows to quickly open work item given it's ID

Put work item's ID into a text box and select a server from drop down menu next to it
You can use Enter key when the text box has focus to pop down menu with servers
You can also reach go to work item command by utilizing CTRL + G shortcut (for a complete list of shortcuts see full shortcuts list).
If there is only one server connected hitting enter will not bring the servers drop down but instead it will launch go to work item command immediately

You can double click a work item on a query results grid to open work item in a separate tab
You can scroll through tabs using your mouse's wheel. For that feature to work you have to give a focus to one of a tab (by clicking tab at the top) and while scrolling the mouse cursor must be over a tab

TFS Spotlight v.0.2

Features

Shortcuts defined view
Provided credentials are persisted so they can be used another time the application will connect to the sever
Application is logging it's activity to a file
Application can update itself. Each next release will be also published for auto update.
Added save all button that allows to save all edited work items in a batch.

Issues

Now application asks whether to save changes or not when closing tab with modified work items
Now if there is the same TFS server defined for both VS2005 and VS2008 then only one is taken
Now only projects that the user has rights to are retrieved
Other minor issues

TFS Spotlight v.0.1

Features

Retrieve configured servers from VS2005/08 and connect to them
Retrieve all projects after successful connection to TFS server
Retrieve all queries for retrieved projects
Allows to run queries
Allows to edit existing work items
Persists user preferences (window position and layout)

Updated Wiki: Home

nuwanda — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:30:00 GMT

Current development status: v.0.7 Final release

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

Screen v.0.7

Known issues

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

Updated Wiki: Home

nuwanda — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:29:05 GMT

Current development status: v.0.7 Final release

TFS Spotlight v.0.6

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 WorkItem

Change log view

Requirements

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

Screen v.0.7

Known issues

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

Updated Wiki: Home

nuwanda — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:20:29 GMT

Current development status: v.0.6 Final release

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

Screen v.0.5

Known issues

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

Updated Wiki: Home

nuwanda — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:06:46 GMT

Current development status: v.0.6 Final release

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.0.5

Known issues

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

Updated Wiki: Home

nuwanda — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:49:38 GMT

Current development status: v.0.6 Final release

TFS Spotlight v.0.6

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.0.5

Known issues

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

Updated Wiki: Home

nuwanda — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:23:14 GMT

Current development status: v.0.6 Final release

TFS Spotlight v.0.6

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________

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

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.0.5

Known issues

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

Updated Wiki: Home

nuwanda — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:22:51 GMT

!Current development status: v.0.6 Final release
TFS Spotlight v.0.6

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________

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

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.0.5

Known issues

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

Updated Wiki: Home

nuwanda — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:22:32 GMT

!Current development status: v.0.6 Final release
TFS Spotlight v.0.6

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________

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

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.0.5

Known issues

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

Updated Wiki: Home

nuwanda — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:15:38 GMT

Current development status: v.0.6 Final release

TFS Spotlight v.0.6

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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

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.0.5

Known issues

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

Updated Wiki: changelog

nuwanda — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:47:18 GMT

TFS Spotlight v.0.6

Features

New Look&Feel
Added 'History panel' that tracks operations made on work items (opening details, creating, editing).
Added possibility to search for work items that include a given string in title or description.

TFS Spotlight v.0.5

Features

Work item creation
Improved servers management

Issues

Now refresh command is active after saving new work item
Now the user can open multiple new work item forms
Now the result grid is not scrolled so that the selected row is first from the top

TFS Spotlight v.0.4

Features

Servers settings introduced

Ability to manage servers (add, remove)
Ability to define a user friendly name
Ability to mark a server so that the application will connect to it on startup

You can get current work item's ID by invoking Control + W shortcut (for a complete list of shortcuts see full shortcuts list).
Unhandled exception dialog box introduced

You can submit exception information via email. This process does not reveal any of your personal data.

Issues

Now work item's details form is disabled when there was an error when retrieving work item's data.

TFS Spotlight v.0.3

Features

Go to work item command placed on a toollbar allows to quickly open work item given it's ID

Put work item's ID into a text box and select a server from drop down menu next to it
You can use Enter key when the text box has focus to pop down menu with servers
You can also reach go to work item command by utilizing CTRL + G shortcut (for a complete list of shortcuts see full shortcuts list).
If there is only one server connected hitting enter will not bring the servers drop down but instead it will launch go to work item command immediately

You can double click a work item on a query results grid to open work item in a separate tab
You can scroll through tabs using your mouse's wheel. For that feature to work you have to give a focus to one of a tab (by clicking tab at the top) and while scrolling the mouse cursor must be over a tab

TFS Spotlight v.0.2

Features

Shortcuts defined view
Provided credentials are persisted so they can be used another time the application will connect to the sever
Application is logging it's activity to a file
Application can update itself. Each next release will be also published for auto update.
Added save all button that allows to save all edited work items in a batch.

Issues

Now application asks whether to save changes or not when closing tab with modified work items
Now if there is the same TFS server defined for both VS2005 and VS2008 then only one is taken
Now only projects that the user has rights to are retrieved
Other minor issues

TFS Spotlight v.0.1

Features

Retrieve configured servers from VS2005/08 and connect to them
Retrieve all projects after successful connection to TFS server
Retrieve all queries for retrieved projects
Allows to run queries
Allows to edit existing work items
Persists user preferences (window position and layout)

Updated Wiki: Home

nuwanda — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:45:36 GMT

Current development status: v.0.6 Final release

TFS Spotlight v.0.6

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

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.0.5

Known issues

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

Updated Wiki: Home

nuwanda — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:44:49 GMT

Current development status: v.0.6 Final release

TFS Spotlight v.0.6

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

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.0.5

Known issues

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

Updated Wiki: changelog

nuwanda — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:12:20 GMT

TFS Spotlight v.0.5

Features

Work item creation
Improved servers management

Issues

Now refresh command is active after saving new work item
Now the user can open multiple new work item forms
Now the result grid is not scrolled so that the selected row is first from the top

TFS Spotlight v.0.4

Features

Servers settings introduced

Ability to manage servers (add, remove)
Ability to define a user friendly name
Ability to mark a server so that the application will connect to it on startup

You can get current work item's ID by invoking Control + W shortcut (for a complete list of shortcuts see full shortcuts list).
Unhandled exception dialog box introduced

You can submit exception information via email. This process does not reveal any of your personal data.

Issues

Now work item's details form is disabled when there was an error when retrieving work item's data.

TFS Spotlight v.0.3

Features

Go to work item command placed on a toollbar allows to quickly open work item given it's ID

Put work item's ID into a text box and select a server from drop down menu next to it
You can use Enter key when the text box has focus to pop down menu with servers
You can also reach go to work item command by utilizing CTRL + G shortcut (for a complete list of shortcuts see full shortcuts list).
If there is only one server connected hitting enter will not bring the servers drop down but instead it will launch go to work item command immediately

You can double click a work item on a query results grid to open work item in a separate tab
You can scroll through tabs using your mouse's wheel. For that feature to work you have to give a focus to one of a tab (by clicking tab at the top) and while scrolling the mouse cursor must be over a tab

TFS Spotlight v.0.2

Features

Shortcuts defined view
Provided credentials are persisted so they can be used another time the application will connect to the sever
Application is logging it's activity to a file
Application can update itself. Each next release will be also published for auto update.
Added save all button that allows to save all edited work items in a batch.

Issues

Now application asks whether to save changes or not when closing tab with modified work items
Now if there is the same TFS server defined for both VS2005 and VS2008 then only one is taken
Now only projects that the user has rights to are retrieved
Other minor issues

TFS Spotlight v.0.1

Features

Retrieve configured servers from VS2005/08 and connect to them
Retrieve all projects after successful connection to TFS server
Retrieve all queries for retrieved projects
Allows to run queries
Allows to edit existing work items
Persists user preferences (window position and layout)

Updated Wiki: changelog

nuwanda — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:07:01 GMT

TFS Spotlight v.0.5

Features

Work item creation
Improved servers management

Issues

Now refresh command is active after saving new work item
Now the user can open multiple new work item forms
Now the result grid is not scrolled so that the selected row is first from the top

!!TFS Spotlight v.0.4
Features

Servers settings introduced

Ability to manage servers (add, remove)
Ability to define a user friendly name
Ability to mark a server so that the application will connect to it on startup

You can get current work item's ID by invoking Control + W shortcut (for a complete list of shortcuts see full shortcuts list).
Unhandled exception dialog box introduced

You can submit exception information via email. This process does not reveal any of your personal data.

Issues

Now work item's details form is disabled when there was an error when retrieving work item's data.

TFS Spotlight v.0.3

Features

Go to work item command placed on a toollbar allows to quickly open work item given it's ID

Put work item's ID into a text box and select a server from drop down menu next to it
You can use Enter key when the text box has focus to pop down menu with servers
You can also reach go to work item command by utilizing CTRL + G shortcut (for a complete list of shortcuts see full shortcuts list).
If there is only one server connected hitting enter will not bring the servers drop down but instead it will launch go to work item command immediately

You can double click a work item on a query results grid to open work item in a separate tab
You can scroll through tabs using your mouse's wheel. For that feature to work you have to give a focus to one of a tab (by clicking tab at the top) and while scrolling the mouse cursor must be over a tab

TFS Spotlight v.0.2

Features

Shortcuts defined view
Provided credentials are persisted so they can be used another time the application will connect to the sever
Application is logging it's activity to a file
Application can update itself. Each next release will be also published for auto update.
Added save all button that allows to save all edited work items in a batch.

Issues

Now application asks whether to save changes or not when closing tab with modified work items
Now if there is the same TFS server defined for both VS2005 and VS2008 then only one is taken
Now only projects that the user has rights to are retrieved
Other minor issues

TFS Spotlight v.0.1

Features

Retrieve configured servers from VS2005/08 and connect to them
Retrieve all projects after successful connection to TFS server
Retrieve all queries for retrieved projects
Allows to run queries
Allows to edit existing work items
Persists user preferences (window position and layout)

Updated Wiki: changelog

nuwanda — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:02:23 GMT

TFS Spotlight v.0.5

Features

Work item creation
Improved servers management

Issues

Now refresh command is active after saving new work item
Now the user can open multiple new work item forms
Now the result grid is not scrolled so that the selected row is first from the top

TFS Spotlight v.0.4

Features

Servers settings introduced

Ability to manage servers (add, remove)
Ability to define a user friendly name
Ability to mark a server so that the application will connect to it on startup

You can get current work item's ID by invoking Control + W shortcut (for a complete list of shortcuts see full shortcuts list).
Unhandled exception dialog box introduced

You can submit exception information via email. This process does not reveal any of your personal data.

Issues

Now work item's details form is disabled when there was an error when retrieving work item's data.

TFS Spotlight v.0.3

Features

Go to work item command placed on a toollbar allows to quickly open work item given it's ID

Put work item's ID into a text box and select a server from drop down menu next to it
You can use Enter key when the text box has focus to pop down menu with servers
You can also reach go to work item command by utilizing CTRL + G shortcut (for a complete list of shortcuts see full shortcuts list).
If there is only one server connected hitting enter will not bring the servers drop down but instead it will launch go to work item command immediately

You can double click a work item on a query results grid to open work item in a separate tab
You can scroll through tabs using your mouse's wheel. For that feature to work you have to give a focus to one of a tab (by clicking tab at the top) and while scrolling the mouse cursor must be over a tab

TFS Spotlight v.0.2

Features

Shortcuts defined view
Provided credentials are persisted so they can be used another time the application will connect to the sever
Application is logging it's activity to a file
Application can update itself. Each next release will be also published for auto update.
Added save all button that allows to save all edited work items in a batch.

Issues

Now application asks whether to save changes or not when closing tab with modified work items
Now if there is the same TFS server defined for both VS2005 and VS2008 then only one is taken
Now only projects that the user has rights to are retrieved
Other minor issues

TFS Spotlight v.0.1

Features

Retrieve configured servers from VS2005/08 and connect to them
Retrieve all projects after successful connection to TFS server
Retrieve all queries for retrieved projects
Allows to run queries
Allows to edit existing work items
Persists user preferences (window position and layout)