Chapter 2Introduction to Team Foundation Server
What's in this chapter?
- Understanding Team Foundation Server
- Learning the core concepts central to Team Foundation Server
- Getting access to Team Foundation Server and connecting to it for the first time
- Learning about what's new in Team Foundation Server 2013
- Planning your Team Foundation Server adoption
Because Team Foundation Server is so fundamental to the Application Lifecycle Management offering from Microsoft, later chapters go into more depth about utilizing different aspects of the product, such as how to use it to plan your work, how to use version control when developing software, and how to use the build automation capabilities. In each case, the use of Team Foundation Server is explained within the context of the task you are doing — but before we can do that you need to know what Team Foundation Server is, what it provides, and how to get it.
Although a full treatment of Team Foundation Server is necessary in a book about Microsoft's Application Lifecycle Management solution, this book deliberately focuses on how to use Team Foundation Server to develop software and effectively organize your teams. Team Foundation Server is highly customizable and extensible by an administrator. The book Professional Team Foundation Server 2013 (Wrox, 2014) is targeted at administrators of Team Foundation Server and individuals who want to customize their instance heavily, although Chapter 7 of this book gives you a small taste of ...
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