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Team Foundation Server 2013 Customization

By : Gordon Beeming
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Team Foundation Server 2013 Customization

By: Gordon Beeming

Overview of this book

<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>
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Team Foundation Server 2013 Customization
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 4. Creating Server Plugins

This chapter will cover creating TFS server plugins. We will have a look at two types of server plugins, the examples of which will illustrate both decision points and notifications. Topics that we will be covering in this chapter include the following:

  • Why use a TFS plugin over a check-in policy?

  • The basics of a server plugin, including:

    • Setting up the code

    • Deploying server plugins

    • Debugging server plugins

  • Creating a check-in plugin to force a comment on the framework code check-ins

  • Creating a work item changed plugin that will make sure the ID of a work item prefixes the work item title

Server plugins can be useful when you want to do trigger-type changes; for example, when a check-in is made to a certain type of file or when details in a work item match a certain criteria.