Question

Are there any TFS plugins available for the Eclipse IDE? We are trying to centralise our SCM, and since we also develop Java 2 EE applications, we would like to have TFS integration in eclipse.

Which plugins are available? Which have you found most useful.

I heard that Microsoft may be releasing one, does anyone know about this?

I have had a look and found the reviews of Teamprise looks good, however would like to have > 1 option!

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

^{(February 2010)}
There might not be a free plugin and this SO question reports several alternative to a direct Eclipse integration.
Otherwise, there is Teamprise:

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^{(Octobre 2010)}
As Martin (mrhinsh) details in his answer (go upvote it):

• Since Teamprise was aquired by Microsoft it has become Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 (as mentioned by the teamprise.com page, and detailed in the Microsoft teamprise FAQ page).
• It might be accessible for anyone with a MSDN licence.
  (thijs confirms in the comment: "its free with an MSDN (Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN) account")

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^{(March 2012, mentioned in the comments by Buck Hodges, Development manager for Microsoft Team Foundation Server):}

The blog post "Even Better Access to Team Foundation Server" by Brian Harry MS announces:

Starting today, we are eliminating the requirement to purchase Team Explorer Everywhere separately.

• Before today,

• Team Explorer Everywhere users had to purchase both a Client Access License (CAL) and the Team Explorer Everywhere software,
• whereas Visual Studio Team Explorer users only had to purchase a CAL – the Visual Studio Team Explorer software has always been a free download (TE 2008, TE 2010, TE 11 Beta) for users who had a license to access a TFS server.
  Starting today the story is the same for Team Explorer Everywhere (TEE 2010 with SP1, TEE 11 Beta).