Team Foundation Server 2015 Customization电子书

Team Foundation Server 2015 Customization

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