Visual Studio Team Services Extensions by Taavi Kõosaar (@melborp)
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In this session we will explore the extensibility offered by Visual Studio Team Services to add custom behavior or enhance the experience of Visual Studio Team Services and/or Team Foundation Server 2015. We will go through the possible extensibilities, implement a nice simplification extenion for PBIs and as the icing on cake, we will do this using continuous deployment to the Visual Studio marketplace.
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Visual Studio Team Services Extensions by Taavi Kõosaar (@melborp)
- 1. Visual Studio Team Services Extensions
- 2. Agenda •Short intro to VSTS •Visual Studio Team Services Extensions •How to get started
- 3. Visual Studio Team Services Agile Build Test Deploy InsightsCode
- 4. Work • Kanban and Scrum Board (Agile Portfolio Management) • Track work, organize and prioritize backlog • Create (common) queries and visualize with graphs • Wiki with Markdown support • Team Room to have discussions with history and connections to project 4
- 5. Code • Choose as code repository - Git or TFVC • Basic code editing online • Visual Studio Integration • Eclipse Integration (Team Explorer Everywhere) 5
- 6. Build • Simple and extensible build engine based on tasks • Web UI to manage • Windows (powershell) and Cross-platform (nodejs) build agents • Can do anything that is available on agent (demand and capability matching) • Continuous Integration 6
- 7. Test • Test Case Management through Test Plans, Test Suites and Test Cases • Manual Test Execution • Elastic Load Testing 7
- 8. Deploy/Release • Release pipelines • Artifacts • Configuration management • Extensible tasks library • Approval flows 8
- 9. More … • Integrations and Extensibility • Service Hooks (uservoice, slack, …) • Service Endpoints (Github, Jenkins, …) • Create integrated experiences by extending VSTS • Insights • Feedback 9
- 10. Demo: VSTS
- 11. Visual Studio Team Services Extensions •Are a powerful way to create integrated experiences and add capabilities to VSTS using standard platform APIs (UI Controls, JS library, REST apis, …) •Are packaged as vsix and built on JavaScript, CSS, HTML
- 12. What can you extend? • Work Item Forms, hubs, menus • Add new build and release tasks • Integration to external service (e.g. Slack) • Add dashboard widgets • Full list of extensibility points (json) 12
- 13. What you need? •An idea! •Knowledge and a tool to write JavaScript, CSS, HTML •Knowledge of requirejs, promises • The API heavily relies on it •TFX-CLI to package (and publish) •(Optional: Can write TypeScript) 13
- 14. The extension we will build •As a team member, i would to auto-generate Tasks based on description details • Customize work item form • Add a new view to show result • Add tasks based on description, that are not there yet!
- 15. Demo: Build a cool VSTS Extensions
- 17. Demo: Release, Marketplace and few extensions
- 18. How to get started • Signup for VSTS for free (5 persons per account) • Signup to be a publisher on VS Marketplace • Use the Visual Studio Online Extensions Project Template • Have a look at sample Extensions on github • Extensions Overview • Read the official how to build your first extension guide • Read one of the many ”How i built my first VSO Extension” posts
- 19. Useful links •VSTS – www.visualstudio.com •VSTS Extensions • New Api - https://www.visualstudio.com/en- us/integrate/extensions/overview • (Old Api - https://www.visualstudio.com/en- us/integrate/api/overview)
- 20. Thank You! Tkoosaar@windowslive.com | @melborp | github.com/melborp | linkedin.com/in/taavik