Wish you could sync your TFS Check-in Policies across your team? Have the TFS Power Tools? Then you already can…

Alkampfer's Place - Distributing Visual Studio addin for the team

“One of the most requested feature for TFS is the ability to distribute automatically Visual Studio adding to team member. This needs is especially important for addin like Custom Check-in policies, because if developers do not install check-in policies they would not be run during a Check-in. Every time you show check-in policies to a customer, it immediately ask you how to distribute them to all developers pc automatically.

I found that some people are not aware that such a feature is already there, but is included in TFS power tools…

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Man, you learn something every day. If I ever knew about this, I’ve forgotten about it and my brain’s GC removed all references long ago.

The sync’ing and deployment of custom TFS Check-in policies has always held me back from jumping heavily into taking advantage of them. I have enough deployment and versioning headaches that I didn’t want another one.

This seems to be just the ticket (assuming everyone on the team has the TFS Power Tools, but that is so awesome, there’s little doubt of that is there?  ;)

 

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