Third Shelf

Included in the Team Foundation Server Tools download is an absolute must-have, Team Foundation Build Notification. If you have are making use of continuous integration chances are that you are building often. Instead of keeping an eye out for the latest build report in your email or constantly checking it in Visual Studio, use this notification utility. It has little popups that appear when someone requested a build either via checkin or ad hoc, which is configurable. It has a notification icon in the system tray (one the few that I will tolerate) and changes whenever one of the builds succeeds, fails or starts. It gives immediate access to the build log which you would normally have to browse for. It is also able to monitor multiple builds. A definite win!