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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 Team Project Picker to connect to TFS programmatically


The TFS object model exposes a few options for connecting to Team Foundation Server. The Team Project Picker (TPP) is one of the options; the advantage of using the project picker is that the user sees a TFS connection dialog that they are familiar with. The user can specify the TFS Server details and authenticate using this dialog. In this recipe, you'll learn how to use the TPP to authenticate and connect to TFS programmatically.

Getting ready

Follow the steps in the Acquiring TFS object model from the NuGet Gallery recipe to create a project in Visual Studio and add the TFS NuGet packages to this project.

How to do it...

  1. Copy the following code into the Program.cs class in the newly created project:

    // Global Variables
    private static TfsTeamProjectCollection _tfs;
    private static ProjectInfo _selectedTeamProject;
    
    // Connect to TFS Using Team Project Picker
    public static void ConnectToTfsUsingTeamProjectPicker()
    {
    // The user is allowed...