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Mylyn is a task oriented plugin that allows for example to assign a set of files to a task. Is there a Mylyn type plugin for Visual Studio?

+1  A: 

i'm not aware of anything open source but i do know that team system is setup to support this type of workflow.

resharper might also have features you are looking for but, again, not foss

Keith Fitzgerald
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The closest I've found is Tasktop, by the people that created Mylyn, but it's a standalone application that doesn't integrate with Visual Studio.

(Resharper is irrelevant).

orip
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I asked that question to the VS.NET Development team in Teched 2008.

She said that they've notice about Mylyn, but are still looking on it. Task focusing plugin is not yet ready in VS.NET environment.

Dennis Cheung
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I'll second tasktop. The newest version especially looks nice. Like orip said, it doesn't provide VS integration, but there's a Firefox extension which should be pretty nice... beats using Eclipse purely for Mylyn.

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Not even close to mylyn, but here is an open source addin for visual studio that helps to assign a list of source files to a "session" (you could think of the session as a "task")

http://dsmaddin.codeplex.com/

Jorge Rowies
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Mylyn is not currently supported in any Visual Studio distribution that I'm aware of. It is available only within the Eclipse IDE or as an Eclipse RCP application. The company that supports Mylyn, Tasktop, has a survey where you can specify which IDE you're using. If you choose Visual Studio you are effectively voting for Mylyn support for VS.

Vote for VS support: https://tasktop.com/support/survey/

David Shepherd, Tasktop Technologies
http://www.twitter.com/davidcshepherd

David Shepherd
I know that mylyn doesn't support VS. That's why I asked for alternatives. Already voted on your page, but there is no schedule for porting Mylyn to VS or am I wrong?
sumek
I gather you're an experienced Mylyn user, sorry for giving you information you already knew! You're right, there is currently no schedule for porting Mylyn to VS. I will update this entry if I hear of any updates to this plan.
David Shepherd
Maybe not an experienced user. Definitely a great fan though and as I work in VS most of the time those days I'm missing its functionality a lot
sumek