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    Team Foundation Server 2015 Customization
    Team Foundation Server 2015 Customization
    Team Foundation Server 2015 Customization
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    Team Foundation Server 2015 Customization

    By Beeming Gordon

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    This book is intended for anyone with experience with TFS, and in particular intermediate users who want to add more value to their organization by making its TFS users more productive. The book requires basic coding skills.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateOct 27, 2015
    ISBN9781785883217
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      Team Foundation Server 2015 Customization - Beeming Gordon

      Table of Contents

      Team Foundation Server 2015 Customization

      Credits

      About the Author

      About the Reviewers

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      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Creating a Dashboard and a Welcome Page

      What permissions do I need?

      What is the Team Dashboard?

      Pinning work item query data

      Pinning work item query counts to the dashboard

      Pinning work item query charts

      Pinning recent code changes

      Pinning the build status

      Pinning testing charts

      Rearranging tiles on the home page

      Welcome pages

      Where are the welcome pages?

      Summary

      2. Streamlining Your Teams' Boards

      Teams in TFS

      Where do I find the board settings?

      Configuring card settings

      Show ID

      Show Assigned To field as

      Show Effort

      Show Tags

      Show additional fields

      Configuring swimlanes

      Configuring columns

      Summary

      3. Customizing Your Process Template

      Some prerequisites

      What is a process template?

      How do I get started?

      The process template structure

      The root folder

      Build

      Classification

      Groups and permissions

      Lab

      Reports

      Test Management

      TestVariables.xml

      TestConfiguration.xml

      TestSettings.xml

      TestResolutionState.xml

      Version control

      Windows SharePoint Services

      WorkItem Tracking

      Link types

      Exporting and importing Link Types

      Queries

      TypeDefinitions

      Fields

      Workflow

      Form

      Reference links

      Exporting and importing the work items

      Process

      Exporting and importing the process configuration

      Categories.xml

      Exporting and importing Categories.xml

      Importing a complete process template

      Uploading changes after team project creation

      Summary

      4. Enhanced Work Item Forms with Field Custom Controls

      Prerequisites

      Using a custom control in the process template

      Creating a Windows Forms Control for client applications

      The project setup

      The code for our custom client control

      Deploying our custom client control

      Debugging our custom client control

      Creating a web control for the web access

      The code for our custom control

      Deploying our custom control

      Debugging our custom control

      Enabling TFS debug mode

      Configuring Fiddler – an AutoResponder rule

      Summary

      5. The Guide Standards for Check-in Policies

      Prerequisites

      The project setup

      Implementation

      Deploying a check-in policy

      Configuring a check-in policy to be used

      Deploying to the masses

      Existing check-in policies

      Colin's ALM check-in policies – VS 2015 and VSO

      Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Power Tools

      Summary

      6. Enforcing Standards with Server-Side Plugins

      Check-in policies versus server plugins

      The project setup

      The basics of server plugin code

      Solution attempt 1 – use event type DecisionPoint

      Solution attempt 2 – use event type notification

      Solution attempt 3 - hybrid approach, validate the policy

      Deploying a server plugin

      Debugging server plugins

      A slightly more complicated example

      Summary

      7. Customizing the TFS Build

      The prerequisites

      What is an XAML build template?

      Should I use the old or the new build system?

      How do I download a build template?

      How do I create a new build?

      Creating custom activities

      Activity-specific logic

      How do I use a custom activity in a build template?

      A walkthrough of the new build system

      Summary

      8. Creating TFS Scheduled Jobs

      The project setup

      Writing the TFS job

      Deploying our TFS job

      Registering, queueing, and deregistering a TFS job

      How do I know whether my TFS job is running?

      Summary

      9. Service Hooks

      What service hooks are available?

      Why would you want to use service hooks?

      How can you use service hooks in TFS?

      Completing and verifying the service hook works

      Summary

      10. VSO Extensions

      What is VSO Extensions?

      Why invest time in this extension model?

      How do I build my own extension?

      The extension manifest – content and SDK

      Packaging and publishing on the marketplace

      How can I stay up to date with VSO Extensions?

      The extensions for the VSO site

      ALM Rangers Community Extensions

      My blog

      Summary

      Index

      Team Foundation Server 2015 Customization

      Team Foundation Server 2015 Customization

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      First published: October 2015

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      Credits

      Author

      Gordon Beeming

      Reviewers

      N Satheesh Kumar

      Mathias Olausson

      Jim Szubryt

      Acquisition Editor

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      Content Development Editor

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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 is currently a software developer and does all kinds of TFS administration, customization, and exploring as a sort of a hobby. He is part of the ALM Rangers family and has also been awarded a Microsoft ALM MVP for the past 2 years. Gordon currently works for Derivco, which is a very unique company to work for and is based in Durban, South Africa.

      He has a published book to his credit, called Team Foundation Server 2013 Customization (http://bit.ly/MX0yVb). Also, as part of the ALM Rangers, he has a book to his credit, called Managing Agile Open-Source Software Projects with Microsoft Visual Studio Online (http://bit.ly/1Pppi4g).

      You can find him mainly on Twitter using the handle @GordonBeeming, and he occasionally posts blogs at http://binary-stuff.com/.

      I want to give a shout out to my wife and kids for their support through the late nights and sometimes sleepless nights when completing this book. Love you guys, lots!

      About the Reviewers

      N Satheesh Kumar holds a bachelor's degree in computer science engineering and has about 17 years of experience in software development, and project and program management. He started his career by developing software applications using Borland software products. He has worked for multiple organizations in India, the UAE, and USA. His main domain expertise is in retail, and he is currently working in Bangalore as a senior engineering manager for a top retailer in UK. Satheesh is currently managing multiple agile scrum teams to deliver the website's features. His experience also includes the implementation and customization of Microsoft Dynamics. He works with the latest Microsoft technologies and is a certified PMP (Project Management Professional).

      Satheesh has also authored LINQ Quickly, Software Testing using Visual Studio Team System 2008, Software Testing using Visual Studio 2010, and Software Testing using Visual Studio 2012 by Packt Publishing.

      Mathias Olausson is the CTO of Solidify AB, specializing in software craftsmanship and application life cycle management. With close to 20 years of experience as a software consultant and trainer, he has worked for numerous projects and organizations, and has been very valuable when using Visual Studio as a tool to improve the way is software built. Mathias has been a Microsoft Visual Studio ALM MVP for 7 years. He is also active as a Visual Studio ALM Ranger. He is a frequent speaker on Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server at conferences and industry events, and writes blogs at http://msmvps.com/blogs/molausson.

      He's also worked on other books such as Pro Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012 (http://www.amazon.com/Application-Lifecycle-Management-Visual-Professional/dp/1430243449/) and Pro Team Foundation Service (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430259957?keywords=Pro%20Team%20Foundation%20Service&qid=1444131621&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1).

      Jim Szubryt has been working in the Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) space since 2006. He has been a Microsoft ALM Ranger since 2011 and a Microsoft ALM MVP since 2013, and has spoken at national conferences on ALM and DevOps topics. In his role at Accenture, he has overseen the adoption of ALM and DevOps practices. This has transformed how internal IT delivers the business goals of the $30 billion company.

      Jim is an application tech arch manager in Accenture's enterprise architecture organization. His responsibilities include setting the direction for the use of dev tools, source code management, release management, and automated testing tools that support DevOps in Accenture's internal IT infrastructure. He has also worked on the book Team Foundation Server 2013 Customization.

      Thanks to my wife, Sue, daughter, Ari, and son, Austin, for their patience with me during the summer break while I was working on this book.

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      Preface

      Team Foundation Server is a collaboration tool that allows you to host your source code, track requirements, tasks, testing artifacts and more, all in a single package. Integrate it with your existing IDE or editor and let your team work in a flexible environment that adapts to projects of all shapes and sizes.

      From team-specific dashboards to complex server plugins, everything is covered in this concentrated guide to aid your knowledge. Delving deep, this book covers the pros and cons of check-in policies as well as their debugging and deployment strategies. After that, you will learn about Advanced XAML builds and TFS jobs. Finally, you will learn about service hooks and VSO Extensions. This will help you create new extensions and explore new levels of customization.

      Explore what gives you the edge over other developers by knowing the tips and quick fixes for customizing TFS, and effectively minimize the time that users spend interacting with TFS so that they can be more productive.

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