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Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

By : Tarun Arora
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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

Retrieving TFS permissions programmatically using the TFS object model


TFS administrators are often required to publish and review user permissions. In this recipe, you will learn how to use the TFS object model to programmatically generate the security groups, members, permissions, and security settings of users in Team Projects in TFS.

Getting ready

Follow the steps in the Acquiring TFS object model from the NuGet Gallery recipe to create a project in Visual Studio and add the TFS NuGet packages to this project.

How to do it...

  1. Connect to TFS programmatically: As a first step, a connection to the TFS needs to be established. This can be done using the following snippet:

    var tfs = TfsTeamProjectCollectionFactory
                    .GetTeamProjectCollection(new Uri("http://tfs2015:8080/tfs")); 
    tfs.EnsureAuthenticated();
  2. Get an instance of the version control server service: The version control server service exposes an interface with a set of methods to work with TFS version control component programmatically...