Team Foundation Server 2010 Advanced Topics

Delivery Options

• Customized Onsite Training (2 days): Request a Proposal

Class Description

Class Overview

Class Goals

• Understand the architecture of a process template and modify an existing process template
• Use global lists to share selection data between fields and team projects
• Understand parallel development
• Understand Team Foundation Server's support for parallel development
• Use branching, merging, shelving, and unshelving effectively
• Visualize branch hierarchies and changeset merges
• Use the TF command line utility and the TF Rollback command
• Install and use the MSSCCI provider
• Understand Team Foundation Build controller and agent architecture

Class Outline

1. Customizing Process Templates
   1. Customizing vs. extending
   2. Process template architecture
   3. Modifying a process template
   4. Work item type schema
   5. Customizing work item types
   6. Configuring work item states and transitions (workflow)
   7. Using global lists
   8. Lab Exercises
      1. Create a team project for managing TFS customization
      2. Download and explore a process template
      3. Modify the process template
      4. Upload and test a process template
      5. Create a new process template
      6. Implement a global list
      7. Alter work item types for an existing team project
      8. Use the Team Foundation Power Tools Process Editor
2. Parallel Development
   1. Introduction to parallel development
   2. Branching, promotion and locking models
   3. Branch, merge, shelve and unshelve operations
   4. Conflict detection and resolution
   5. Securing version control folders and files
   6. The TF.exe command line utility
   7. Team Foundation Server Power Tools
   8. Alternate compare and merge tools
   9. The MSSCCI provider
   10. Lab Exercises
       1. Create version control folders, branches and workspaces
       2. Branch code, merge changes and visualize hierarchies
       3. Detect and resolve conflicts
       4. Perform a baseless merge using TF.exe
       5. Rollback changes using TF.exe
       6. Secure artifacts in version control
       7. Shelve and unshelve changes
       8. Install and use the MSSCCI provider (optional)
       9. Install and use an alternate merge tool (optional)
3. Check-In Policies
   1. Ensuring changes are properly implemented
   2. Configuring check-in policies and notes
   3. Team Foundation Server Power Tools policy-pack
   4. Understanding policy failure, overriding and managing overrides
   5. Creating, deploying and debugging a custom check-in policy
   6. Lab Exercises
      1. Configure the work item association check-in policy
      2. Configure the code analysis check-in policy
      3. Migrate code analysis policy settings to Visual Studio projects
      4. Create a unit test and managing test lists
      5. Configure a unit testing check-in policy
      6. Using Test Impact Analysis with the testing policy
      7. Use the Custom Path policy to scope other check-in policies
      8. Create, deploy and debug a custom check-in policy (optional)
4. Team Foundation Build
   1. Team Foundation Build architecture
   2. Controllers, agents and pooling
   3. Securing the build process
   4. Automating Team Foundation Build
   5. Implementing Continuous Integration (CI)
   6. Builds check-in policy
   7. Gated check-ins and private builds
   8. Publish debugging symbols
   9. Customizing Team Foundation Build
   10. Using build process templates
   11. Customizing Windows Workflow-based build definitions
   12. Creating a custom Windows Workflow activity
   13. Customizing MSBuild-based build definitions
   14. Creating a custom MSBuild task
   15. Lab Exercises
       1. Setup build controller and build agents
       2. Create an automated build definition
       3. Configure build notifications
       4. Ensure a quality build by enabling code analysis
       5. Ensure a quality build by running automated tests
       6. Configure a gated check-in build
       7. Configure a private build
       8. Configure the build to publish debugging symbols
       9. Create a custom build template
       10. Customize a Windows Workflow-based build definition
       11. Create a custom Windows Workflow activity (optional)
       12. Customize an MSBuild-based build definition (optional)
       13. Create a custom MSBuild task (optional)

Class Materials

Each student in our Live Online and our Onsite classes receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.

Class Prerequisites

Experience in the following areas is required:

• Have familiarity with their organization's software development process
• Have experience developing and supporting multiple versions of a software project
• Have experience working with multiple developers on a software project
• Have experience with the types of conflicts that can arise from a multi-developer project
• Have familiarity with distributed application design (i.e. client/server, web, n-tier, etc.)
• Be able to read and understand C# .NET code (all source code will be provided)
• Understand Microsoft Windows operating system and security basics

Technical Requirements

Our computer technical requirements and setup process is easy, with support just a click away.

• Onsite course technical requirements and setup instructions.