The October 2008 release of the TFS power tools is now available. If you’re more advanced that code monkey, you’ll want this. TFS is now integrated with the Windows shell. You can right click a file or directory, get latest, add to source, merge, and everything else you used to need to do through the Visual Studio IDE.

TFPT has also been updated to allow searching of check-ins based on server path, committed date range, committed user, check-in comments and check-in notes. PowerShell is supported as well, for basic operations.

Within the Team Explorer, there’s a new node called “Team Members”. Prepopulated with your project’s team members, you have the ability to view an individual’s check-ins, pending changes, and shelvesets. You can, of course, populate with AD users or TFS groups.