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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

PsTFS – PowerShell and TFS, better than peanut butter and chocolate? (Okay, maybe not, but it’s close… ;)

“PsTFS is a set of PowerShell commands to manage and use Team Foundation Server. PowerShell effectiveness is combined with the power of TFS API to maximize TFS capabilities.
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These CMDLETS provide support for :

Visualizing project(s) members
Adding a list of members to a group of projects
Listing projects
Viewing work items
Executing work items queries
Adding one or more file to a project
Adding folder recursively
Performing merges
And many more to come...

CmdLet list
CmdLet Description
Add-Branch Creates a branch
Add-Files Adds files
Add-MemberProject Adds members to a project group
Add-Project Creates a new project on the server
Add-Label Creates a label
Add-WI (NEW) Create a Workitem for a given type and project name
Get-AllProjects Retrieves information about every project
Get-Changeset Retrieves changesets from one or more projects
Get-ChangesetByWI (NEW) Retrieve all changesets for a given workitem
Get-Diff (NEW) See the difference between two server folders
Get-Files (NEW) Retrieve files from a server folder
Get-LogTFS (NEW) Save events in an object collection (Adding/Removing file, Check-in...)
Get-ProjectMembers Retrieves members of a project
Get-PendingStatus Get the pending changes
Get-TFS Connects to a Team Foundation Server
Get-WI Gets a specific version of a work item by its id or URL
Get-WIQueries Retrieves all work item queries from a project
Get-WIs Runs a work item query
Remove-Files (NEW) PERMANENTLY delete one file or more
Remove-ProjectMembers Removes members from a project
Set-Merge Performs merge between branches
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CmdLet	Description
Add-Branch	Creates a branch
Add-Files	Adds files
Add-MemberProject	Adds members to a project group
Add-Project	Creates a new project on the server
Add-Label	Creates a label
Add-WI (NEW)	Create a Workitem for a given type and project name
Get-AllProjects	Retrieves information about every project
Get-Changeset	Retrieves changesets from one or more projects
Get-ChangesetByWI (NEW)	Retrieve all changesets for a given workitem
Get-Diff (NEW)	See the difference between two server folders
Get-Files (NEW)	Retrieve files from a server folder
Get-LogTFS (NEW)	Save events in an object collection (Adding/Removing file, Check-in...)
Get-ProjectMembers	Retrieves members of a project
Get-PendingStatus	Get the pending changes
Get-TFS	Connects to a Team Foundation Server
Get-WI	Gets a specific version of a work item by its id or URL
Get-WIQueries	Retrieves all work item queries from a project
Get-WIs	Runs a work item query
Remove-Files (NEW)	PERMANENTLY delete one file or more
Remove-ProjectMembers	Removes members from a project
Set-Merge	Performs merge between branches

PsTFS - PsTFS V0.2

“Released: Mar 8 2009
Updated: Mar 9 2009 by pc152
Dev status: Beta
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Downloads & Files
Sample - CreateProject – EN
documentation, 3K…
Exemple - CreateProject – FR
documentation, 4K…
PsTFS V0.2
application, 129K…
PsTFS V0.2 (Source)
source code, 9205K…
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The merging of these two, PowerShell and TFS, seems like a no-brainer in hind sight doesn’t it?

How cool would it be to have a PS Provider/Namespace for TFS? DIR’ing and CD’ing into the different areas of a TFS server would be pretty interesting wouldn’t it? Hum…