A colleague of mine (Lewis) recently sent out a link to a great extension that you can add to Visual Studio 2012. It allows you to have a separate Pending Changes Window like you used to have in Visual Studio 2010. You will love this if you can’t get used to the new Team Explorer, for example if you find it is slower to view your pending changes and are frustrated with the new way that you have to exclude changes before you check in.
It is called TeamPilgrim and can be downloaded at the following URL http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/79e9baa7-ea8b-4335-86ba-ae929bf67222
If anyone has come across any other alternatives to TeamPilgirm I would be grateful if you can post some links.
Jonathan Roy Welch 