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Team Foundation Server 2015 Customization

By : Gordon Beeming
Book Image

Team Foundation Server 2015 Customization

By: Gordon Beeming

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Team Foundation Server 2015 Customization
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Why invest time in this extension model?


In the past, we were able to create plugins for web accesses such as Tiago Pascoal's Task Board Enhancer (http://pascoal.net/task-board-enhancer/). In essence, if you read Team Foundation Server 2013 Customization (http://bit.ly/MX0yVb), you will remember that we mentioned that the old way of creating these kinds of plugins is not supported by Microsoft. As new updates are released for TFS on premise, you could spend quite a lot of time refiguring out the APIs, as they can and do change as required by the product. You have to consider that has a risk when delving into that extension model.

With this new model, it is completely supported by Microsoft, so you can expect similar compatibility as you have today with Visual Studio and the client object model that Microsoft ships. This makes the model a lot more attractive, as you know that the time to update plugins will not be the reason to stay on older versions of TFS.

The other great reason for investing...