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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

Adding multi-item select control in the Work Item form


Natively, the Work Item forms in Team Project do not support multivalue fields. While there isn't native support for multivalue fields in the Process Template, there is an open source multivalue field control that allows you to achieve exactly this. In this recipe, you'll learn how to set up and use the multivalue field control in an existing Team Project.

Getting ready

Download and install the custom Work Item Control from CodePlex http://witcustomcontrols.codeplex.com. The download includes a web extension and an extension for Visual Studio. The Visual Studio extension needs to be installed on all machines you intend to use the multivalue control from in Visual Studio. You do not need to install this control on machines where you intend to use this control in Web Portal only. You need to be a member of the Project Administrator Group to make these changes.

In this recipe, we'll be extending the Team Global List field set up earlier in...