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Team Foundation Server 2013 Customization

By : Gordon Beeming
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Team Foundation Server 2013 Customization

By: Gordon Beeming

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<p>Team Foundation Server offers you the benefit of having all your data in one system with all tools tightly integrated with each other, making it easier for teams to work together. Knowing how to customize the Team Foundation Server is very useful as well as powerful. Having the knowledge and applying it to TFS can save users many hours as well as make it easier to understand the data in TFS for reporting purposes.</p> <p>This book will show you how to customize various TFS features in order to create an enhanced experience for your users and improve their productivity. You will create custom controls that will be used in client applications and inside the web access. Next, you will learn how to embed a web page inside your work items to display rich information linked to the work items you are opening.</p> <p>This book will show you how to modify a team’s process template, and then slowly get to grips with some C# code and create a scheduled job.</p> <p>Using this book, you will create a JavaScript web access plugin that greatly increases productivity. You will start off by making various modifications to the process template to illustrate how we can cater to custom data requirements, and then we will move towards writing code to perform more complex customizations.</p> <p>Customizing Team Foundation Server 2013 is one of the best methods you can use to provide rich data for reporting in TFS.</p>

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Team Foundation Server 2013 Customization
Gordon Beeming
Jan, 2014 | 102 pages
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Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Team Foundation Server 2013 Customization
Team Foundation Server 2013 Customization
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Customizing the TFS Process Templates for Your Business
Customizing the TFS Process Templates for Your Business
Prerequisites or tools
Customizing the TFS work items
Adding a new portfolio to the process template
Summary
2
Increasing Web Access Usability
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
Summary
3
Enhancing Work Items with Custom Controls
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
Summary
4
Creating Server Plugins
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
Summary
5
Creating TFS Scheduled Jobs
Creating TFS Scheduled Jobs
Creating a TFS job
Checking the job history
Debugging a TFS job
Deregistering the custom job with TFS
Summary
6
Customizing a TFS Build Process
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
Summary
Index
Index

Using the control on an existing work item definition

To use our new control in a WITD, we need to go back to the process template, add a new field, and then set the control to be our control.

Start off by opening the ProductBacklogItem.xml WITD, which you should be able to locate in the path C:\ProcessTemplates\Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 2013\WorkItem Tracking\TypeDefinitions. Next, add a new field called Unplanned Work with a reference name MyCompany.UnplannedWork and the type as String. For the rules of this field, add a DEFAULT value of False and allowed values of True and False. Your field definition should look like this:

<FIELD name="Unplanned Worked" refname="MyCompany.UnplannedWork" type="String">
<DEFAULT from="value" value="False" />
<ALLOWEDVALUES expanditems="true">
  <LISTITEM value="True" />
  <LISTITEM value="False" />
</ALLOWEDVALUES>
</FIELD>

Next, add your control to your layout. To do this, add a new control, set the Label of...

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