Team Foundation Server 2013 Customization

Author: Gordon Beeming
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Published: January 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78217-714-2

Overview

Learn how to customize TFS and create useful plugins for your organization. This hands-on guide walks you through customizing process templates, increasing web access usability with JavaScript plugins, enhancing work items with custom controls, creating server plugins, building TFS scheduled jobs, and customizing build processes.

Reviewed by

Chandana N. AthaudaLogutov MichaelMathias OlaussonJim Szubryt

Table of contents

Chapter 1: Customizing the TFS Process Templates for Your Business
- Prerequisites or tools
- Customizing the TFS work items
- Adding a new portfolio to the process template
Chapter 2: Increasing Web Access Usability
- Customizing TFS dashboard tiles
- Changing the default columns for portfolio boards
- Adding fields to the add panels
- Creating a basic JavaScript plugin
Chapter 3: Enhancing Work Items with Custom Controls
- Creating a Windows Forms control
- Creating a control for use inside the Web Access
- Using the control on an existing work item definition
- Displaying a web page with rich data inside a WITD
Chapter 4: Creating Server Plugins
- Using a TFS plugin over a check-in policy
- The basics of a server plugin
- Creating a check-in plugin
- Creating a work item changed plugin
Chapter 5: Creating TFS Scheduled Jobs
- Creating a TFS job
- Checking the job history
- Debugging a TFS job
- Deregistering the custom job with TFS
Chapter 6: Customizing a TFS Build Process
- Creating a copy of the default build template
- Creating a custom build activity
- Adding a custom activity to an existing build template
- Adding a build template argument