Introduction

TFS provides integrated tooling for software application delivery and life cycle management. It is not uncommon for organizations to have different tools for managing different parts of the life cycle, for example, Jira for Agile Project Management, TeamCity for builds, Jenkins for release management, and ServiceNow for service management. Customers expect to be able to integrate and share information between different systems. Team Foundation Server has a fairly large ecosystem of tools and services it integrates with. The following screenshot shows some of the partners from the TFS ecosystem, you can find the complete list at https://vsipprogram.com/Directory:

It is virtually impossible to provide out-of-the-box integration with every other system; to bridge the gap, TFS provides a very rich library that allows you to retrieve, edit, update, insert, and delete data in TFS. The API makes these operations secure and auditable. Today, TFS has two extensibility technologies, as...