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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

Getting build details programmatically using the REST API


In this recipe, you'll learn how to get a list of builds with details in a Team Project using the BuildHttpClient REST APIs.

Getting ready

As alluded to in the chapter introduction, Team Foundation Server 2015 does not yet have OAuth token provisioning capability; for this reason, the only way to consume the REST API is using alternate credentials. Alternate credentials uses basic authentication as the authentication protocol. When using basic authentication, the user credentials are sent to the server in plain text. This type of setup simply isn't acceptable in a professional environment. Follow the instructions at http://bit.ly/1Nfe8e0 to set up a self-signed certificate to configure SSL for TFS. With SSL, the traffic between the client and TFS is encrypted.

If you simply want to play around with the REST API without getting into the complexities of the setup, then API Sandbox is a great place to start: https://apisandbox.msdn.microsoft...