Team System Power Toys and Cool Tools

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Team System Power Toys and Cool Tools
Richard Erwin Microsoft UK
TEAVNOST 300
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Agenda

• Introduction
• How Microsoft is extending VSTS
• How others are extending VSTS
• How you can extend VSTS

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Architecture
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What Microsoft is doing

• Out-of-band tool releases
• TFS Administration Tool
• Power Tools
• Annotate
• Check-in Policies
• Additional Command line utilities
• Process Template editor
• Test Tools Build Task
• Team Plain

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Demo
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Team System Ecosystem

• http//TeamSystemWidgets.com
• 140 listed tools
• Free and Commercial Products
• Attrices Sidekicks
• Personify Designs TeamLook
• Simple object model to extend VSTS

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Team System Ecosystem

• http//TeamSystemWidgets.com
• 140 listed tools
• Free and Commercial Products
• Attrices Sidekicks
• Personify Designs TeamLook
• Simple object model to extend VSTS

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Visual Studio 2005 SDK

• Team Foundation Server SDK
• Work Item Tracking
• Version Control
• Reporting
• Events
• Build Information
• Extend Visual Studio Clients
• Teamprise Java Object Model

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Demo
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The Event Model

• React to events as they happen on TFS
• BisSubscribe.exe
• Send an email or call Web Service
• For Example
• Add Continuous Integration
• Respond to Work Item changes

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Event Model
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Demo
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Process Template Editor

• In the box MSF Agile and MSF for CMMI
• You may want to change
• Types of Work Items
• Use Case, Task, Bug, Change Request,
• Work Item content and workflow
• UI for each Work Item Type

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Demo
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Other Extensibility Points

• Check-in Policies
• Custom Controls for Work Items
• Write your own Reports
• Custom Data Generators
• Custom Policies
• Web/ Load test Plug-ins

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Conclusion

• Very configurable
• Highly extensible
• Numerous Partner Products
• Vibrant Community
• Blogs
• Sample code
• Free tools
• Online Assistance
• Think of VSTS as a Platform

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Slides Links on http//blogs.msdn.com/ukvsts/
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Resources

• Visual Studio SDK
• Team System Widgets
• Our Blog
• IEeee
• TFS Notification Web Services
• Scrum For Team System