May 2014
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
24h 18m
English
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Professional Team Foundation Server 2013
by Steven St. Jean, Damian Brady, Ed Blankenship, Martin Woodward, Grant Holliday
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Chapter 29Extending Team Foundation Server
What's in this chapter?
- Getting started with the client object model
- Exploring the server object model
- Building server plug-ins
- Exploring other extension options
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From the very start, Team Foundation Server was built to be extended. Microsoft acknowledged that it would never be able to build all the different features and functionality that customers would want. The philosophy was that Microsoft's own features should be built upon the same API that customers and partners can use to build additional features.
This proved to be a very wise design choice and has led to a thriving ecosystem of products and extensions. Following are some examples of this ecosystem:
- Microsoft partners have built products that provide rich integration with products such as Outlook and Word.
- Competing and complementary Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) products have been built to integrate with Team Foundation Server.
- Consultants have leveraged the APIs to fill gaps to meet their client's very specific requirements.
- The community has built and shared useful tools and utilities for performing common tasks.
- The Visual Studio ALM Ranger community builds tools and solutions ...
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