What this book covers

Chapter 1, Creating a Dashboard and a Welcome Page, takes you through adding tiles, charts, and graphs to your dashboard and has a quick tour of the welcome pages.

Chapter 2, Streamlining Your Teams' Boards, helps you customize the board area of TFS, including the cards, swimlanes, and columns.

Chapter 3, Customizing Your Process Template, takes you through making modifications to the process template and shows you what type of changes you are able to make to the process template.

Chapter 4, Enhanced Work Item Forms with Field Custom Controls, talks about the pros and cons of custom controls and tells you how to create a new custom control that can be used for web and client work item forms.

Chapter 5, The Guide Standards for Check-in Policies, discusses the check-in policies in detail and what is required to make your own.

Chapter 6, Enforcing Standards with Server-side Plugins, introduces server-side plugins and what is required to make a TFS server plugin.

Chapter 7, Customizing the TFS Build, covers the customization of XAML builds and setting up builds with the new build system in TFS 2015.

Chapter 8, Creating TFS Scheduled Jobs, takes you through creating, installing, and monitoring TFS scheduled Jobs.

Chapter 9, Service Hooks, shows you what service hooks are and how you can use them to extend your TFS experience outside of TFS.

Chapter 10, VSO Extensions, gives a small example of how to create one such extension. Although this is currently only available in VSO, the same or at least very similar guidelines will be able to be applied when this is released to on-premise.