The intention of this project was originally just to be able to enforce a branching policy in TFS 2010, however after some research, it is clear that the server side extensions are powerful so this is an area where to make known any other extensions I develop or utilitze.
The initial gate was through a custom check in policy, however with the addition of first class branches in TFS 2010 that no longer went through check-in policies, a server side policy had to be developed. The following resources were a great help in inspiring this effort: