Jand writes about team development and Microsoft.NET

Do you want to checkin your files from the Windows Explorer (Shell Integration) like with Subversion add-ins?

Some people don’t want or need a Visual Studio Team Explorer, because they are none Microsoft-based developers like Oracle DBA’s. But you want to use Team Foundation Server as your source control repository by default, because you like the integration of work items or the main development of your project is in .NET.

Unfortunately, this is by default not available from TFS. But there are two tools around which are closing this gap!

• LizardTF which is open source
• Dubblebock TFS from Benjamin Day Consulting for about $25 per user

I hope Microsoft will implement this in a future release by it’s own. But there’s now no excuse anymore to say you need a Subversion repository because of the shell integration.