Chapter 1, Customizing the TFS Process Templates for Your Business, covers customizing the TFS process template by adding new fields to an existing work item type using the TFS Power Tools and by editing raw XML files. We will also create a new work item portfolio.

Chapter 2, Increasing Web Access Usability, covers customizing the TFS Web Access by lighting up the dashboard with useful information, and we will also create a web extension using JavaScript to light up the task and portfolio boards.

Chapter 3, Enhancing Work Items with Custom Controls, covers creating custom controls that can be used on work items to extend the way in which we interact with the data in our work items.

Chapter 4, Creating Server Plugins, covers creating some server plugins to help add some business rule validations to TFS check-ins and work item data changes.

Chapter 5, Creating TFS Scheduled Jobs, covers TFS scheduled jobs, and we will learn how to create a new job, register it, deregister it, and check the history of running scheduled jobs.

Chapter 6, Customizing a TFS Build Process, covers customizing the TFS build process and then we set up a scenario for open source projects, where we set up a CI build that tweets new releases and locations to get the new bits.

For this book, you will need the following software:

This book is for all users who need or want to customize TFS to make their organization more productive while using TFS. Users will need an understanding of the terms used in TFS to easily navigate through the book.

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "We will check all the submitted items to see if any of them are in the Framework folder."

A block of code is set as follows:

using System.Diagnostics;
using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Server;
using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Server;

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

cd C:\ProcessTemplates\Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 2013\WorkItem Tracking\TypeDefinitions

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "This will perform the deployment locally to your machine each time you build. To enable easy debugging, switch to the Debug tab, click on the Start external program radio button, and click on the browse button."

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