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Team Foundation Server 2015 Customization

Take your expertise to the next level by unraveling various techniques to customize TFS 2015

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|Sep 2025
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Key Features

    Book Description

    What you will learn

    • Customize TFS 2015 dashboard and administer various components
    • Configure board cards, swim lanes, and columns
    • Explore the types of changes that can be made on the TFS process templates
    • Create your own custom control for the Web and client work item forms
    • Build up new checkin policies
    • Get to grips with your personal server plugins and their uses
    • Customize both XAML builds and the new build system
    • Schedule jobs for more complicated business rules to run on a schedule
    • Extend your TFS possibilities with service hooks and VSO extensions

    Who this book is for

    This book is intended for anyone with experience with TFS, and in particular, those intermediate users who want to add more value to their organization by making its TFS users more productive. The book requires basic coding skills.

    Table of Contents

    1. Creating a dashboard and welcome page
    2. Streamlining your teams boards
    3. Customize your process template
    4. Enhanced work item forms with field custom controls
    5. Guide standards with Check-in policies
    6. Force Standards with Server side plugins
    7. Customizing TFS Build
    8. Creating TFS Scheduled Jobs
    9. Service Hooks
    10. VSO Extensions
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78588-321-7
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 208