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Learn how to customize TFS and create useful plugins for your organizationAbout This Book
  • This book accelerates the understanding of TFS extension points
  • Learn how to create a JavaScript web access plugin
  • Discover the tips and tricks of customizing TFS
Who This Book Is For

This practical guide is intended for those who want to extend TFS. This book is for intermediate users who have an understanding of TFS, and basic coding skills will be required for the more complex customizations.

What You Will Learn
  • Create and modify pieces of the TFS Process template
  • Customize the dashboard of teams with useful information
  • Extend the task and portfolio boards with meaningful information
  • Develop custom controls that change the way users interact with data
  • Make server plugins that will help add some business rule validation to TFS Check ins and work item data changes
  • Implement scheduled jobs that will enforce advanced business rules based on a schedule
  • Extend the build process to cater to more complex builds
  • Reference external services as part of a build to provide awareness of new binaries
In Detail

Team Foundation Server offers you the benefit of having all your data in one system with all tools tightly integrated with each other, making it easier for teams to work together. Knowing how to customize the Team Foundation Server is very useful as well as powerful. Having the knowledge and applying it to TFS can save users many hours as well as make it easier to understand the data in TFS for reporting purposes.

This book will show you how to customize various TFS features in order to create an enhanced experience for your users and improve their productivity. You will create custom controls that will be used in client applications and inside the web access. Next, you will learn how to embed a web page inside your work items to display rich information linked to the work items you are opening.

This book will show you how to modify a teams process template, and then slowly get to grips with some C# code and create a scheduled job.

Using this book, you will create a JavaScript web access plugin that greatly increases productivity. You will start off by making various modifications to the process template to illustrate how we can cater to custom data requirements, and then we will move towards writing code to perform more complex customizations.

Customizing Team Foundation Server 2013 is one of the best methods you can use to provide rich data for reporting in TFS.

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Team Foundation Server 2013 Customization

Team Foundation Server 2013 Customization

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First published: January 2014

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Credits

Author

Gordon Beeming

Reviewers

Chandana N. Athauda

Logutov Michael

Mathias Olausson

Jim Szubryt

Acquisition Editors

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Llewellyn Rozario

Lead Technical Editor

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Technical Editors

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Cover Work

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About the Author

Gordon Beeming is an energetic and passionate person who always strives to find ways to increase and improve the productivity and friendliness of the systems he works with. He has been a software developer for a little over five years. In this time, he has also gained strong experience in TFS and is a part of the ALM Rangers. He currently works for Derivco, which is a very unique company to work for, based in Durban, South Africa.

About the Reviewers

Chandana N. Athauda is currently employed at Brunei Accenture Group (BAG) Networks, Brunei, and serves as a technical consultant focusing on adopting new technologies toward solid solutions. He has been working professionally in the IT industry for more than 12 years (ex-Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and Microsoft Ranger for TFS). His roles in the IT industry have spanned the entire spectrum from programmer to technical consultant. Technology has always been a passion for him. In his spare time, he enjoys watching association football and of course, Crossfit WOD-ing.

If you would like to talk to Chandana about this book, feel free to write to him at <> or tweet him @inzeek.

Logutov Michael is a professional web developer working in Moscow. He is also the administrator of the company's Team Foundation Server and has been customizing it since 2007.

Mathias Olausson is the CEO at Solidify AB, specializing in software craftsmanship and application lifecycle management. With close to 20 years of experience as a software consultant and trainer, he has worked in numerous projects and organizations, which has been very valuable, while using Visual Studio as a tool for improving the way we build software. Olausson has been a Microsoft Visual Studio ALM MVP for six years. He is also active as a Visual Studio ALM Ranger, and most recently in the role of project lead for the Visual Studio Lab Management Guide project. He is a frequent speaker on Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server at conferences and industry events, and he blogs at http://msmvps.com/blogs/molausson. He has worked on the following two books:

  • Pro Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012 ( APress , 1430243449) which can be found at http://www.amazon.com/Application-Lifecycle-Management-Visual-Professional/dp/1430243449/
  • Pro Team Foundation Service which can be found at http://www.amazon.com/Team-Foundation-Service-Experts-Voice-ebook/dp/B00FGSVJ92

Jim Szubryt has been working in the ALM space for the last seven years. He is a Microsoft Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) MVP and Microsoft ALM Ranger. He has been working with TFS since 2006 for companies with as few as five developers and as many as 2,500. He is an Application Tech Arch Manager in the Enterprise Workforce with Accenture.

I'd like thank my wife Sue, daughters Camille and Ari, and son Austin, for their patience with me during the holidays while working on this.

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Preface

Team Foundation Server is an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool that helps you manage and plan all your work, including portfolio management, management of your test cases, and test execution. You are able to interact with TFS using various clients, such as Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), and a web portal. This book will show you how to customize TFS using lots of customization and extensibility points. After going through this book, you will have a good understanding of how to help your company by enhancing the user experience and productivity of users while using TFS.

What this book covers

, Customizing the TFS Process Templates for Your Business , covers customizing the TFS process template by adding new fields to an existing work item type using the TFS Power Tools and by editing raw XML files. We will also create a new work item portfolio.

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