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Team Foundation Server 2015 Customization

You're reading from   Team Foundation Server 2015 Customization Take your expertise to the next level by unraveling various techniques to customize TFS 2015

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785888199
Length 208 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Creating a Dashboard and a Welcome Page FREE CHAPTER 2. Streamlining Your Teams' Boards 3. Customizing Your Process Template 4. Enhanced Work Item Forms with Field Custom Controls 5. The Guide Standards for Check-in Policies 6. Enforcing Standards with Server-Side Plugins 7. Customizing the TFS Build 8. Creating TFS Scheduled Jobs 9. Service Hooks 10. VSO Extensions Index

Implementation


The code for a check-in policy is really simple:

  1. First, make the BigChangesCheckInPolicy class inherit from PolicyBase:

    public class BigChangesCheckInPolicy : PolicyBase
    {
    }
  2. You will also need to add the following using statement:

    using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client;
  3. Now, we'll implement the methods that are required by the abstract methods in PolicyBase. Let's first use the following code to describe our policy:

    public override string Description => 
          "The Big Changes Checkin Policy makes sure that if you "+
          "make lots of changes you are adding a work item to "+
          "the check-in";
    public override string Type =>
          "Big Changes Checkin Policy [Dialog Box]";
    public override string TypeDescription =>
          "The Big Changes Checkin Policy makes sure that if you " +
          "make lots of changes you are adding a work item to " +
          "the check-in [Dialog Box]";
    public override bool Edit(IPolicyEditArgs policyEditArgs) => 
              true...
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