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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

The process template structure


The structure of the process template is very basic with all the top-level folders representing an area of TFS for which it has configuration and customizations. The following is a screenshot of this structure when the folder is opened in Visual Studio Code:

Figure 8: The process template filesystem structure

From the preceding structure, we will be going into various levels of detail. At a minimum we'll have an overview and, if relevant, a level where you could look into more details for them.

The root folder

There is only one file in the root of the process template by default, called ProcessTemplate.xml. This file is the entry point for a new team project being created. The first node is the metadata node and contains the name, description, version, and plugins that are run for project creation.

Note

Plugins specify tasks that should be performed while creating a new Team Project in TFS. These tasks configure things such as permissions, default settings, and the...