Why are we open sourcing our extensions?

We plan to open source many of our solutions, listed on library of tooling and guidance solutions, to share them as sample code, foster community collaboration and innovation.

Our mission is to “provide professional guidance, practical experience and gap-filling solutions”. When we ship a solution, we need to switch context to other gaps, limiting our ability to effectively invest in long-term maintenance and innovation.  By embracing open source, we hope to enable the community to review the solutions, help fix bugs and contribute features they need. 

Our open source solutions

2016.09.08 – Add latest OSS projects.

• Countdown Widget Extension
• Extracting effective permissions from TFS
• File Owner Extension 
• Folder Management Extension
• Migrate assets from RM server to VSTS
• Print Cards Extension
• Roll-Up Board Widget Extension
• Sample Data Widget Extension
• Show Area Path Dependencies Extension

… more to come!

What are your thoughts on open source?

We look forward to hearing from you. Here are some ways to connect with us:

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Comments

• Anonymous
  August 18, 2016
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• Anonymous
  August 22, 2016
  Any change you can pull this (or something like it), Export Template Wizard , to be open sourced? https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/57320b20-34a2-42e4-b97e-e615c71aca24 Its from Visual Studio Product team but has not been touched since 2010. There is like nowhere I can find documented information about how you should do a multi-project-solution. This is probably the best thing I have found so far but I´m having problems with VSIX and PCL.. https://github.com/ligershark/side-waffle/wiki/How-to-create-a-multi-project-template
  • Anonymous
    August 23, 2016
    Sturla, at this stage we are only considering to open source projects we own.
• Anonymous
  August 23, 2016
  Can you guys change this page (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudioalmrangers/2015/04/22/library-of-tooling-and-guidance-solutions-aka-msvsarsolutions/) so that instead of a blog post masquerading as a web page, maybe it is an actual web page? Maybe a static website running on GitHub or something.
  • Anonymous
    August 23, 2016
    What's your concern with the current solution page, which is intentionally using our team blog?