Team Foundation Server 2015 Customization - Softcover

Beeming, Gordon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785888196 ISBN 13: 9781785888199

Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

Take your expertise to the next level by unraveling various techniques to customize TFS 2015

About This Book

• Learn how to efficiently modify your TFS-specific dashboards for complex server plugins
• Find out the pros and cons of various extension points and customizations in TFS
• A fast-paced guide with highly concentrated information on TFS customizations

Who This Book Is For

This book is intended for anyone with experience with TFS, and in particular, those intermediate users who want to add more value to their organization by making its TFS users more productive. The book requires basic coding skills.

What You Will Learn

• Customize TFS 2015 dashboard and administer various components
• Configure board cards, swim lanes, and columns
• Explore the types of changes that can be made on the TFS process templates
• Create your own custom control for the Web and client work item forms
• Build up new check-in policies
• Get to grips with your personal server plugins and their uses
• Customize both XAML builds and the new build system
• Schedule jobs for more complicated business rules to run on a schedule
• Extend your TFS possibilities with service hooks and VSO extensions

In Detail

Team Foundation Server is an efficacious collaboration tools that will allow you to share code, track records, software, 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.

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

In this book you will quickly cover lots of TFS extension points, from the very basic task of customizing and configuring dashboards to customizing automated builds and check-in policies.

You will learn how to create dashboards in TFS 2015, as well as add tiles, graphs, and more useful modifications. You'll perform customizations that make TFS work for you by streamlining your team's boards. You'll cast modifications to the process template and learn the tips and tricks required to make efficient and valuable uses of your team's board.

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 proper debugging and deployment strategies. After that you will learn about advanced XAML builds and TFS jobs to further experiment with the activities of your jobs on your system. Finally, you will learn about service hooks and the amazing utility of .VSO extensions to help you create new extensions and explore new levels of customization.

Style and approach

This is an easy-to-follow guide with clearly explained and demonstrated examples.

About this title

About the Author

Gordon Beeming

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 an 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/.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1785888196
• ISBN 13: 9781785888199
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 208