Visual Studio 2012 TFS offline

Coding with TFS integration into your solution with a unreliable connection can be frustrating.

Frustration- Waiting for TFS timeout is a production Killer

1. Start editing a file
2. Visual studio tries to check out the file from TFS 
3. You wait for the connection to timeout

Solution - Take Your Solution Offline

You can take your solution offline from source control.  Out of the box the only way for visual studio to go offline is to

1. Close and re-open the solution.  
2. hoping TFS is unavailable.  

To the rescue is a visual studio plugin that will let you go offline any time you wish.

Visual Studio Go Offline Extension

Happy Coding!