In September of 2008 me and a colleague released InfoKiosk on CodePlex. The intention of the application is to inform development teams about the status of all projects in TFS. The application, made in Silverlight 2.0, looks like a continuous slideshow of various bits of information and is intended to run on one or more (TV or PC) screens for all team members to see.
Most of the TFS applications build by others have been around the reporting the Build Status, such as Brian the Build Bunny (cute), The Build Wallboardor the Build Notification Screen, however, none of them gives a team a continuous view of what the status is of all active projects.
InfoKiosk was designed to not only display the status of ALL build processes but also to be extensible so other bits of information could be displayed, and it is not limited to just TFS. We released the application with two components; the TFS Build Status and the TFS Bug report. We also created a component which would report on Code Review Issues but this depended on adding a new Work Item Type in your Process Template which you could then use to register a code review issue. InfoKiosk would then display how many open, in progress or closed code review issues each team has which is similar to what is displayed for Bugs.
As I said before, InfoKiosk is a modular application, you can build a new component to display just about anything you want to show and you don’t have to use it for development teams, you could also adjust it to be used as score board for a sport match alternating with advertising of some sort.
The reason that I am writing about it now is that I want to make it more flexible and accommodate the needs you may have for the things you want to do with it.
So, please let me know what you think of it and if there is anything you think we should add or change.