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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

Using Service Hooks to integrate with Trello boards


Traditionally, applications depending on data from TFS would continuously poll TFS to check for updates. Service Hooks, a new introduction in TFS 2015, provides the means to cascade an event in TFS to another application. When an application registers in TFS for an event notification, a secure queue is created between TFS and the application. When the event the application has registered for happens in TFS, it is published across to the application. This removes the need for applications to poll TFS for updates.

If you aren't familiar with Trello, it is a fantastic web-based tool that helps you set up a Kanban board for pretty much anything. Many organizations use Trello boards for product planning purposes. You can learn more about Trello at https://trello.com.

In this recipe, you'll learn how to create a Service Hook to securely publish a new feature Work Item from Team Portal in TFS to a board in Trello.

Getting ready

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