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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

Managing CodeLens in TFS


CodeLens is a Microsoft Visual Studio feature that shows you information about your code directly in the code editor. Before CodeLens, one had to dig through several different windows for information such as method references, tests linked to a method, the last change to a line of code, or the code churn to a class. Since all of this information is in TFS, you would just expect it to be available in one place. CodeLens just does that by putting this information literally at your fingertips within the code editor. CodeLens supports both TFVC and Git repositories. CodeLens now supports C#, VB, C++, SQL, and JavaScript files. You can learn more about CodeLens and other quality and diagnostic tools available in Visual Studio at http://bit.ly/1NNbtJ6.

This book focuses on TFS, you are probably wondering why Visual Studio-specific features are being discussed. TFS is responsible for preparing the information served by CodeLens in Visual Studio. TFS has specific jobs for...