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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 copy of the default build template


With TFS 2013, the build templates are not part of a source control by default; so, we will need to get a copy of the default process template, and then add that template to the source control so that we can use it.

Downloading the default template

The first thing we will need to before we can customize a build template is getting the default template and creating a copy of it. To get started, open Team Explorer, then click on Builds, and then on New Build Definition. Select the Process step to the left under the Build process template section and click on the Show Details arrow. Also, make sure that the Default Template (TfvcTemplate.12.xaml) template is selected in the dropdown. Click on the Download button as shown in the following screenshot:

Downloading the build definition

Save the template as CustomBuildTemplate.xaml.

Using the template in a build

The next step is to add this template to the source control. Add the template to a folder called...