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Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

By : Tarun Arora, Arora
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Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

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By: Tarun Arora, Arora
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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 (10 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Sections
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. Team Project Setup
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1. Team Project Setup
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Introduction
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Connecting to TFS using Team Explorer
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Setting up your user profile in TFS
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Creating a Team Project using the Scrum Template
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Assigning a license, adding users, and auditing user access
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Configuring Dashboards in Team Project
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Setting up a welcome page for a Team Project
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Creating and setting up a Team Room
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Renaming a Team Project
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Creating a new Team Project through the command line
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Deleting a Team Project
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2. Setting Up and Managing Code Repositories
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2. Setting Up and Managing Code Repositories
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Introduction
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Creating a Git repository in an existing TFVC Team Project
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Enabling code analysis check-in policy
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Performing a baseless merge between sibling branches in TFVC
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Reparenting a branch in TFVC
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Unlocking files checked out by someone else
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Unshelving a shelveset created in one branch to another branch
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Ignoring file types from check-in using .tfignore and .gitignore
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Conducting code reviews in TFS
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Setting up policies for branches in Git
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Conducting Pull requests in TFS
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Analyzing code churn with TFS analysis services cube
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3. Planning and Tracking Work
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3. Planning and Tracking Work
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Introduction
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Selecting the backlog levels displayed on the Team Portal
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Mapping, assigning, and tracking Work Items shared by multiple Teams
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Adding additional columns to the Kanban board
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Customizing cards displayed on the boards
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Setting up the Team's capacity and activity for a sprint
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Querying Work Items by Tags
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Creating charts using Work Item Queries
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Using Service Hooks to integrate with Trello boards
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Deleting Work Items in TFS permanently
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Using Microsoft Feedback Client to provide feedback
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4. Building Your Application
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4. Building Your Application
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Introduction
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Configuring TFBuild Agent, Pool, and Queues
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Setting up a TFBuild Agent using an unattended installation
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Creating a continuous integration build definition in TFBuild
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Pinning a build badge to the welcome page in Team Portal
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Managing build resources using role-based access
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Using the build retention policy to automate build deletion
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Using user capabilities to identify a build agent in a pool
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Version DLLs in build output with build number
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Creating a new build task using the TFBuild Extensibility framework
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Integrating SonarQube with TFBuild to manage technical debt
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Building GitHub code repositories with TFBuild
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5. Testing Your Application
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5. Testing Your Application
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Introduction
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Running NUnit tests in the CI Pipeline using TFBuild
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Creating and setting up a Machine Group
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Deploying a test agent through the TFBuild task
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Distributing test execution on a Lab Machine Group
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Triggering Selenium Web Tests on a Selenium Test Grid using TFBuild
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Integrating the Cloud Load Testing Service in TFBuild
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Analyzing test execution results from the Runs view
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Exporting and importing test cases in Excel from TFS
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Copying and cloning test suites and test cases
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Exporting test artifacts and test results from the test hub
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Charting testing status on Dashboards in Team Portal
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6. Releasing Your Application
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6. Releasing Your Application
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Introduction
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Creating a release definition in Team Web Portal
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Mapping artifacts to a release definition
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Configuring a release definition for a continuous deployment
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Adding and configuring environments in a release definition
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Configuring security for release definitions
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Configuring global and local variables for a release
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Deploying an Azure website using release management
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Deploying the IIS Web Application using release management
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Tracking a release in release management
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7. Managing Team Foundation Server
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7. Managing Team Foundation Server
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Introduction
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Diagnosing builds in TFS
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Analyzing the TFS database and configuring test retention policies
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Using Activity and Job Monitoring logs to diagnose TFS issues
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Changing update frequency and forcing a rebuild of TFS Warehouse
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Configuring TFS Cache settings
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Managing CodeLens in TFS
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Continuous synchronization with the TFS Proxy server
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Creating a TFS database back up schedule
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Cleaning up unused workspaces and shelvesets in TFS – in progress
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8. Extending and Customizing Team Foundation Server
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8. Extending and Customizing Team Foundation Server
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Introduction
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Acquiring TFS object model from the NuGet Gallery
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Using Team Project Picker to connect to TFS programmatically
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Determining the version of TFS using the TFS object model
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Retrieving TFS permissions programmatically using the TFS object model
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Getting the Process Template name for a Team Project programmatically
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Getting build details programmatically using the REST API
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Getting a list of Git repositories programmatically using the REST API
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Getting a Work Item by ID programmatically using the REST API
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Adding a Team field to the Product Backlog Item to an existing Team Project
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Adding multi-item select control in the Work Item form
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Connecting to TFS using Team Explorer

To build, test, track, or release your software, you'll need to connect the client of your choice to Team Foundation Server. As a software developer, you'll spend a lot of time in the Visual Studio IDE. Whether you store the code in the TFS Git repository or TFVC source control, you'll need to connect the IDE to TFS to interact with the code. In this recipe, you'll learn how to connect to TFS using Team Explorer.

Getting ready

If you have any Visual Studio 2015 SKU installed, you already have Team Explorer. With TFS 2015, a separate install of Team Explorer is no longer available; you will need to install Visual Studio Community at the very least to get Team Explorer.

Note

To connect to TFS via any of the office products, you can install the TFS Office Integration Installer: http://bit.ly/1k3wh7p. You can read more about the benefits of the TFS Office Integration Installer at http://bit.ly/1Grh3DS.

When you start Visual Studio for the first time, you'll be asked to sign in with a Microsoft account, such as Live, Hotmail, or Outlook, and provide some basic registration information. Choose a Microsoft account that best represents you. If you already have a MSDN account, it's recommended that you sign in with its associated Microsoft account. If you don't have a Microsoft account, you can create one for free. Logging in has various benefits such as the synchronization of Visual Studio settings across multiple machines. While logging in is advisable, it is not mandatory.

How to do it...

  1. Open Visual Studio 2015.
  2. Click on the Team toolbar and select Manage Connections...:
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  3. From within Team Explorer, click on the Manage Connections hyperlink and choose Connect to Team Project:
    How to do it...
  4. In the Connect to Team Foundation Server window, the drop-down shows a list of all the TFS Servers you have connected to before. If you don't see the server you want to connect to in the drop-down, click on Servers... to enter the details of the Team Foundation Server. Click on Add... and enter the details of your TFS Server. You may be required to enter the login details to authenticate with the server.
    How to do it...
  5. The authenticated user details along with server details will update on the Connect to Team Foundation Server window. Click on the Connect button to complete the operation.
  6. You should be successfully connected to TFS via Team Explorer now:
    How to do it...

How it works...

Visual Studio now ships with a GitHub connector. Now, the Manage Connections dialog within the Team Explorer allows you to connect not only to TFS and VSO, but also GitHub. This is a great example of how Microsoft is embracing open source by enabling seamless integration for non-Microsoft products.

How it works...

Note

If you are a GitHub free account user, you will be limited to just one account in Visual Studio; this is a limitation posed by GitHub. GitHub Enterprise users have the ability to map multiple accounts from Team Explorer 2015.

If you are in two minds whether to log in to Visual Studio with Microsoft account, weigh these benefits:

  • Synchronizes your Visual Studio settings: Visual Studio settings such as key bindings and color theme, apply immediately when you sign in to Visual Studio on any another device.
  • Extends the trial period: If you do not have a Visual Studio license, by logging in you can extend the trial period on Visual Studio Professional or Enterprise from 30 to 120 days.
  • Unlocks Visual Studio: If your Microsoft account is associated with your MSDN account, your copy of Visual Studio is automatically unlocked.

If you do not want to synchronize the settings, this feature can be disabled. In the Tools menu, chose Options. Look for Synchronized Settings under Environment and uncheck the option as shown in the following screenshot:

How it works...
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