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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

Creating a TFS job


Today, we will be creating a TFS job that can replace our work item's changed server plugin that we created in the previous chapter. One of the reasons we would want to do this is that we are able to only run our logic when the last-changed time of the work item is after a couple of minutes. This will give users the time to complete what they are doing with the work items. Also, try to avoid getting the TF237079 error that was shown in the previous chapter.

Writing the code

To get started, create a new .NET 4.5 class library called TFS.ScheduledJobs and add a reference to the Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Server.dll file. This file is located in the directory C:\Program Files\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 12.0\Application Tier\Web Services\bin and Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Common.dll, which is in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\ReferenceAssemblies\v2.0 and Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.WebApi.dll. This is located in C:\Program Files...