By Gordon Beeming

Learn tips on how to customise TFS and create beneficial plugins to your organization

About This Book

  • This booklet hurries up the certainty of TFS extension points
  • Learn the best way to create a JavaScript internet entry plugin
  • Discover the ideas and tips of customizing TFS

Who This e-book Is For

This functional advisor is meant if you happen to are looking to expand TFS. This booklet is for intermediate clients who've an realizing of TFS, and uncomplicated coding abilities could be required for the extra advanced customizations.

What you'll Learn

  • Create and adjust items of the TFS method template
  • Customize the dashboard of groups with worthwhile information
  • Extend the duty and portfolio forums with significant information
  • Develop customized controls that vary the best way clients engage with data
  • Make server plugins that may support upload a few enterprise rule validation to TFS payment ins and paintings merchandise information changes
  • Implement scheduled jobs that would implement complex company ideas in accordance with a schedule
  • Extend the construct technique to cater to extra complicated builds
  • Reference exterior companies as a part of a construct to supply knowledge of recent binaries

In Detail

Team beginning Server will give you the good thing about having your entire facts in a single approach with all instruments tightly built-in with one another, making it more straightforward for groups to interact. figuring out find out how to customise the crew origin Server is especially important in addition to strong. Having the information and using it to TFS can store clients many hours in addition to help you comprehend the information in TFS for reporting purposes.

This e-book will make it easier to customise numerous TFS positive aspects in an effort to create an superior adventure to your clients and increase their productiveness. you are going to create customized controls that would be utilized in buyer functions and contained in the internet entry. subsequent, you are going to the way to embed an online web page inside of your paintings goods to show wealthy info associated with the paintings goods you're opening.

This publication will make it easier to alter a team's approach template, after which slowly become familiar with a few C# code and create a scheduled job.

Using this e-book, you are going to create a JavaScript internet entry plugin that significantly raises productiveness. you'll commence by means of making a variety of alterations to the method template to demonstrate how we will cater to customized facts requisites, after which we are going to movement in the direction of writing code to accomplish extra complicated customizations.

Customizing staff origin Server 2013 is likely one of the most sensible tools you should use to supply wealthy information for reporting in TFS.

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Stream of Work in the new Product Backlog Item form Notice how all the values are listed alphabetically. TFS will automatically display all list items alphabetically. xml file, we will be adding a field for Product Code. This field will be a number that will be used to highlight a product code that the work item is related to (if applicable). When any work item for that product code is approved, the product code can't be changed. xml WITD inside your favorite text editor. You should be able to locate it in the path C:\ProcessTemplates\Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 2013\WorkItem Tracking\TypeDefinitions.

We aren't going to create a website for this demo, but we will set up a web page control that will load a URL and pass some variables from the loaded work item as part of the query string.

Conventions In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning. Server; Any command-line input or output is written as follows: cd C:\ProcessTemplates\Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 2013\WorkItem Tracking\TypeDefinitions New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "This will perform the deployment locally to your machine each time you build.

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