Can I get TFS 2010 shelveset alerts?

Question

Is it possible to generate an alert that will send e-mails when a shelveset is created? Similar to the check-in alert.

I would think that this would be very useful to automatically inform other developers in a team of the existence of the shelveset.

I have the TFS 2010 Power Tools installed and looked in the Alerts Explorer. I didn't see anything there that would indicate that this is possible.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I think that is a great feature request. Unfortunately AFAIK there are no out of the box alerts set up for shelve sets. 

You have two options

- Use TFS SDK to build your own solution around this

- Use sidekick to manually monitor the new shelve sets created. 

Neither ideal, so raise a feature request here http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio

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Answer 2

Raised on visual studio user voice. 

Please feel free to vote this up http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/2661629-set-alerts-on-shelvesets

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Answer 3

I'm pretty sure we added this feature for TFS 11 (the beta is out now!)

Thanks!