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Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

By : Tarun Arora
Book Image

Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

By: Tarun Arora

Overview of this book

Team Foundation Server (TFS) allows you to manage code repositories, build processes, test infrastructure, and deploy labs. TFS supports your team, enabling you to connect, collaborate, and deliver on time. Microsoft's approach to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) provides a flexible and agile environment that adapts to the needs of your team, removes barriers between roles, and streamlines processes. The book introduces you to creating and setting up team projects for scrum teams. You'll explore various source control repositories, branching, and merging activities, along with a demonstration of how to embed quality into every code check-in. Then, you'll discover agile project planning and management tools. Later, emphasis is given to the testing and release management features of TFS which facilitate the automation of the release pipeline in order to create potentially shippable increments. By the end of the book, you'll have learned to extend and customize TFS plugins to incorporate them into other platforms and enable teams to manage the software lifecycle effectively.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Ignoring file types from check-in using .tfignore and .gitignore


Traditionally, TFS only supported server workspaces. Local workspaces were rolled out in TFS 2012. A local workspace allows you to work disconnected from the server. All core version control operations can be performed without any server connectivity. Local workspaces listen for changes on the filesystem to infer the operations being performed. For example, a new file created in the workspace directly from the filesystem will show up as a pending change. Users who used Subversion source control will be familiar with local workspaces. Read more about the workings of local workspaces at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb892960.aspx.

Many tools and extensions that work in concert with Visual Studio generate temporary files within the local workspace directories. For example, ReSharper, a developer productivity extension for Visual Studio, generates _Resharper.[SolutionName] files that are (by default) included in pending...