Eventually you're going to need to search their source-control for latest changes given some parameters. I recently came across a couple of handy ways to do this, using TFS Powertools (and Powershell).
First, ensure you have the latest version of TFS Powertools installed.
Also ensure you have included Powershell CmdLets when you install (or make sure this option was enabled if you've already got TFS Powertools installed)
To search TFS via the command line, fire up the Powershell window and execute the following command:
PS C:\SanjayU\> Get-TfsitemHistory "$/SomeProject/SomeBranch/1.0/" -Version "D1/1/10~D1/15/10" -Re
curse -server http://YourTfsServer:8080
This would get all changes from January 1st, 2010 to January 15th, 2010 in the SomeProject/SomeBranch/1.0 directory on our TFS server.
Alternatively, you can execute the following command which will provide you a GUI to conduct similar searches..
PS C:\SanjayU\> tfpt searchcs
Definitely handy.
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Sources & further reading
http://blog.hackedbrain.com/archive/2009/04/01/6166.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z51z7zy0.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb385992.aspx
Installation of TFS PowerTools:
http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/11/09/visual-studio-team-system-2008-team-foundation-server-power-tools-october-2008-release.aspx
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