Rob Caron has been busy over the festive season and has blogged about a new third party product called TeamLook which allows you to use Microsoft Outlook to interact with Visual Studio 2005 Team System.
An overview of this product from their website;
Teamlook is a convenient software project dashboard that enables all stakeholders in a software development project to communicate and collaborate on Visual Studio 2005 Team System projects from within Microsoft Outlook. Teamlook offers stakeholders a familiar user interface, tightly integrated with Microsoft Outlook, for managing Work Items, viewing Reports, and contributing to the overall project. With Teamlook, stakeholders can interact with Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server and:
Connect to Team Projects through a user interface tightly integrated with Microsoft Outlook
The Beta version of this product is now available for download from the PersonifyDesign website. (1.5Mb)
I’ve just downloaded the application and should be able to report more on it shortly.