The tool you know, updated to work in Visual Studio 2012. Protect your code by guaranteeing your pending changes are always backed up to the TFS server.

What it does:

Automatic Shelving shelves all your pending changes while you are coding
Manual Shelving shelves all your pending changes anytime with a single menu click or Ctrl+T hotkey
Uses one shelveset per workspace to shelve all pending changes to the TFS Server
Shelvesets are re-used to save the latest version of pending changes

Functionality:

Automatic Shelving
- Begins when any solution mapped to TFS is opened in Visual Studio
- Disabled when non-mapped TFS solution is opened
- Team Menu allows you to turn on/off automatic shelving
  - Team Menu -> TFS Auto Shelve (Running)
  - Team Menu -> TFS Auto Shelve (Not Running)
Manual Shelving
- Can be triggered any time as long as you are connected to TFS
  - Team Menu -> TFS Auto Shelve Now
Options
- Tools Menu -> Options -> TFS Auto Shelve Options
  - ShelveSetName – string.Format input expression for deriving the unique shelveset name. By default it is “Auto-{1}” where {0}=WorkspaceInfo.Name, {1}=WorkspaceInfo.OwnerName, {2}=DateTime.Now.
  - TimerSaveInterval – The interval (in minutes) which automatic shelving will occur

Note: The ShelveSetName expression supports Composite Formatting. For example, {2:hh} if you want to include just a 2 digit hour in the name. Or, {2:yyyyMMdd} for a sortable date value.

Helpful Info:

To view shelvesets, open Source Control Explorer, click on:
- File > Source Control > Unshelve Pending Changes
Workspaces can be modified by:
- Opening the Source Control Explorer > Clicking on Workspaces drop down > Click Workspaces… > Click Add/Edit/Removed
Custom Visual Studio Activity Logging is implemented. If you run into any errors, please startup Visual Studio with the /log switch, re-create the error, then close Visual Studio. You can browse to “%AppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\ActivityLog.XML” to view the log.