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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

About the Reviewers

Chandana N. Athauda is currently employed at Brunei Accenture Group (BAG) Networks, Brunei, and serves as a technical consultant focusing on adopting new technologies toward solid solutions. He has been working professionally in the IT industry for more than 12 years (ex-Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and Microsoft Ranger for TFS). His roles in the IT industry have spanned the entire spectrum from programmer to technical consultant. Technology has always been a passion for him. In his spare time, he enjoys watching association football and of course, Crossfit WOD-ing.

If you would like to talk to Chandana about this book, feel free to write to him at or tweet him @inzeek.

Logutov Michael is a professional web developer working in Moscow. He is also the administrator of the company's Team Foundation Server and has been customizing it since 2007.

Mathias Olausson is the CEO at Solidify AB, specializing in software craftsmanship and application lifecycle management. With close to 20 years of experience as a software consultant and trainer, he has worked in numerous projects and organizations, which has been very valuable, while using Visual Studio as a tool for improving the way we build software. Olausson has been a Microsoft Visual Studio ALM MVP for six years. He is also active as a Visual Studio ALM Ranger, and most recently in the role of project lead for the Visual Studio Lab Management Guide project. He is a frequent speaker on Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server at conferences and industry events, and he blogs at http://msmvps.com/blogs/molausson. He has worked on the following two books:

Jim Szubryt has been working in the ALM space for the last seven years. He is a Microsoft Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) MVP and Microsoft ALM Ranger. He has been working with TFS since 2006 for companies with as few as five developers and as many as 2,500. He is an Application Tech Arch Manager in the Enterprise Workforce with Accenture.