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Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Online is now for everyone!Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Online is an integral part of Microsoft's Application Lifecycle Management suite for managing and delivering software projects. The 2013 update has opened up TFS for everyone by expanding capabilities to support iOS, MacOS, Android, and Java development. Professional Team Foundation Server 2013 covers the latest updates for Agile Project Management, Test-Case Management, Release Management, the newly announcing Visual Studio Online services, and shows new users the TFS workflow for managing and delivering products. The authors leverage their positions as MVP Microsoft insiders to guide you step-by-step through all things TFS, as well as help prepare you for the Team Foundation Server Certification Exam.

Provides a broad overview of Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Online for developers, software project managers, testers, business analysts, and others wanting to learn how to use TFS
Gives TFS administrators the tools they need to efficiently monitor and manage the TFS environment
Covers core TFS functions including project management, work item tracking, version control, test case management, build automation, reporting
Explains extensibility options and how to write extensions for TFS
Helps certification candidates prepare for the Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2013 certification exam

Professional Team Foundation Server 2013 is the ultimate guide to mastering this invaluable development team's tool.

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1118836340
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978-1118836347
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1st
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Wrox
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May 19, 2014
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English
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7.2 x 1.9 x 9.2 inches
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912 pages
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A comprehensive guide to Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2013

Team Foundation Server has become the leading Microsoft productivity tool for software management, and this guide covers what developers need to know to use it effectively. Written by Microsoft insiders and MVPs, the book follows the tutorial style of Wrox’s successful Professional guides. The 2013 release expands beyond the Microsoft developer community to include supporting iOS, MacOS, Android, and Java development. Offering a specific focus on the significant new features of the TFS 2013 release, the guide still provides step-by-step instructions for using TFS to manage and deliver software products in an enterprise.

Professional Team Foundation Server 2013:

Provides a broad overview of Team Foundation Server for developers, software project managers, testers, business analysts, and others wanting to learn how to use TFS
Gives TFS administrators the tools they need to efficiently monitor and manage the TFS environment
Covers core TFS functions including project management, work item tracking, version control, test case management, build automation, and reporting
Explains support for Git version control.
Helps certification candidates prepare for the Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2013 certification exam

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

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A comprehensive guide to Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2013

Team Foundation Server has become the leading Microsoft productivity tool for software management, and this guide covers what developers need to know to use it effectively. Written by Microsoft insiders and MVPs, the book follows the tutorial style of Wrox’s successful Professional guides. The 2013 release expands beyond the Microsoft developer community to include supporting iOS, MacOS, Android, and Java development. Offering a specific focus on the significant new features of the TFS 2013 release, the guide still provides step-by-step instructions for using TFS to manage and deliver software products in an enterprise.

Professional Team Foundation Server 2013:

Provides a broad overview of Team Foundation Server for developers, software project managers, testers, business analysts, and others wanting to learn how to use TFS
Gives TFS administrators the tools they need to efficiently monitor and manage the TFS environment
Covers core TFS functions including project management, work item tracking, version control, test case management, build automation, and reporting
Explains support for Git version control.
Helps certification candidates prepare for the Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2013 certification exam

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wrox; 1st edition (May 19, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 912 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1118836340
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1118836347
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.3 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.2 x 1.9 x 9.2 inches

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Martin Woodward
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Martin Woodward is currently the Program Manager for the Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Cross-Platform Tools Team. Before joining Microsoft, Martin was voted Team System MVP of the Year and has spoken about Team Foundation Server at events internationally. Not only does Martin bring a unique insight into the inner workings of the product he has experience from over a half-decade of real world use at companies big and small that he is always happy to share. When not working or speaking, Martin can be found at his blog http://www.woodwardweb.com.
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Ed Blankenship
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Hi! I am a Product Manager at Microsoft for Visual Studio Online and ALM on the Developer Tools Marketing team. I was previously a Program Manager for Visual Studio India and the Test & Lab Management (Visual Studio ALM) and the Product Owner for the Lab Management scenarios.
Before joining Microsoft, I was the ALM/TFS Practice Technical Lead with Imaginet (formerly Notion Solutions) and an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Consultant. My expertise is in the Microsoft Visual Studio ALM toolset and Team Foundation Server in which I have been actively using, managing, and implementing for nearly eight years since the beginning of those products in 2005. I have been awarded since 2008 as a Microsoft MVP in Visual Studio ALM, Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team System until joining Microsoft in 2012.
I was voted as the Microsoft MVP of the Year (Visual Studio ALM, TFS) for 2010 by fellow MVPs which has been a great honor in my career to have been selected by my peers for the award.
You can find me blogging at http://www.edsquared.com, tweeting at @EdBlankenship (http://www.twitter.com/edblankenship), and more information on my LinkedIn profile page: http://www.linkedin.com/in/edblankenship.
As an ALM Consultant, I assisted organizations with improving their development lifecycle by suggesting improvements to their processes and implementing Application Lifecycle Management tools to assist with that improvement. By using Visual Studio ALM and Team Foundation Server, customers can immediately see value from their improvements.
I was previously the Release Engineering Manager at Infragistics where I led a multi-year TFS & Visual Studio Team System implementation to improve the development process lifecycle.
I am the lead author of the Wrox Professional Team Foundation Server 2012 and Wrox Professional Team Foundation Server 2010 books, have been a technical editor for the Wrox Silverlight 1.0, Silverlight 2 Developer's Guide, Silverlight 3 Programmer's Reference, and Silverlight 2 Bible books, author of numerous articles, and have spoken at various user groups, events, radio shows, and conferences including Microsoft TechEd.
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Damian Brady
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Damian is a Cloud Advocate specializing in DevOps and MLOps. After spending a year in Toronto, Canada, he returned to Australia in 2018.
Formerly a software engineer at Octopus Deploy and a Microsoft MVP, he has a background in software development and consulting in a broad range of industries. He regularly speaks at conferences, User Groups, and other events around the world.
Most of the time you'll find him talking to software engineers, IT pros and managers to help them get the most out of their DevOps strategies, or writing and recording online content.
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Professional indeed

Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2020

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I needed the basics of TFS. So, I bought the professional version. This book is offers a ton of information. More than I needed, but in the future it could be even more helpful.

Good fur down selecting what you need to research

Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2015

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Ok, let me open by saying TFS is big and no one book can cover all of TFS and that's especially true of this book. What I'll follow up with is this is a nice conceptual piece and reference book for when you don't have access to the web or you want to look ahead somewhat and maybe look past your area of responsibility in using TFS.

Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2015

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Received in a very good status (new as expected)

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2015

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Good reference. I am still reading and rereading.

Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2015

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Very informative and will be used extensively

The product is so large that it can't be covered in detail in just one volume.

Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2014

Disclaimer: I received a free review copy of this book from the authors.

Over the years Team Foundation Server has kept expanding, it's a wonder that this book isn't shipped in a box and that it doesn't have 6 volumes to cover all the topics. Which brings me to the primary reason I've chosen not to award it 5 stars, but 4. The book tries to cover every bit of Team Foundation Server and some bits of Visual Studio and as such can't cover all of the area's with the care and depth they deserve. Because of that a number of chapters left me puzzled or not satisfied. My book case has a bunch of other books that cover these individual topics in much more depth, plus the book links to a lot of external resources, blog posts, magazine articles and MSDN docs.These at least help you find all the important items that are available out there.

Any reader, no matter how basic or advanced will find a couple of gems somewhere in this 900 page tome. It's a very valuable reference guide to using and administering Team Foundation Server. But it won't tell you everything you'll need to know to be an instant guru.

Let's go through the chapters...

The book takes you all the way from explaining the components of TFS, picking an installation type, sizing your hardware and getting TFS installed and finally connecting your client (Visual Studio or Eclipse) to it. If you're a long term user of TFS, you can probably skip these sections.

Then it dives into Source control and, new in this version, has a couple of dedicated sections on Git. While thorough in explaining many concepts, and offering a lot of options, I felt that it could have been very helpful to provide beginners with some sort of cook book to guide them through the most important decisions. A lot of space is taken up by all the screenshots that take you through the steps, which are very helpful to a new user, but as advanced user I was hoping some of that space would be used for some pro tips and tricks to make life easier. Luckily there are plenty of links to external resources, such as the ALM Rangers Version Control Guides. The section on working with non-visual studio team members is very helpful for team in that situation.

Next is a short section on Work Item Tracking and Process templates, probably a topic that could fill a 500 page book in itself. Concepts like custom controls are introduced, but not really explained. Especially the fact that custom controls are specific to Web Access, Visual Studio Version and Eclipse, would be an important thing to include.The book doesn't really cover the proper use of the different process templates that ship out of the box, you'll need to find that information elsewhere.

Then a couple of really short topics on teams, reporting, and project server fly by. Good to know that it's there, but one needs to dive deeper elsewhere to really learn how these items work.

By now we're in chapter 17 and dive into a solid section on Team Build and Release Management.Covering all the main concepts of Team Build and a short overview on MsBuild. For more details on this topic I can really recommend the book Inside the "Microsoft Build Engine: Using MsBuild and Team Foundation Build". The sections on Release Manager explain how to setup the Release Management Server and very quickly explain the different tasks and workflow actions that ship with the product. Enough to give you an global understanding, but by far not enough to allow you to build a release workflow for a reasonably complex project.

Then we dive into a whole bunch of Administration topics, from scaling and recovering your TFS server to monitoring, upgrades and finally customizing your server. In this section you'll also find a few pages on Microsoft Test Manager and a lot on Lab Management. The book ends with a very short chapter that gives you a couple of pointers to extending Team Foundation server.

As you can see, the book covers all the nooks and crannies of TFS using almost 900 pages and it weighs a ton, but after reading it cover to cover you'll probably be left with a lot of question that you'll need to research in other books and in the online resources.

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Kelly Donham-Harris

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2015

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Great reference book for work!

Confusing for Someone New to Version Control

Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2014

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My biggest gripe is that the Sections on Version Control keep making references to Visual Source Safe and Git. While this might be helpful to developers who are familiar with these products it hurdles up the complexity of the topic for the neophyte (like me). It also talks about Server Workspaces which were used in previous versions of the product. I understand that Git is an option in TFS, but intermingling discussions about the two strategies in the same chapter overloads the beginner. Perhaps each Chapter should have a separate well marked Git Branch that can be skipped on first readings.

What I'd like, and what would be more helpful to me would be a Jefferson's Bible with Team Foundation Server 2013 content only. Those who are familiar with other products would be well served by a chapter outlining the differences without the extraneous digressions for those of us who are only interested in TFS 2013 in the main content of the book.

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MOHAND

good book

Reviewed in France on May 2, 2015

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It's realy a good book. we can find all what we need to use in TFS 2013. you will be happy with this book

Mr. D. A. Lawrence

Excellent, no hesitation, this is the book you need.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 28, 2014

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Oh Joy! No hesitation, this is a 5 star work. As a developer I've worked with TFS for years, but never really understood it. As it was a Wrox book I was hesitant as I bought a lot of Wrox books years ago and often found them to be poor. I know they've changed hands since those days but this is the first book I've bought from them in years and I'm delighted to say they are now as good as any of the other publishers in the market. TFS changed a lot since the first version but this book brings you up to date. The explanations are comprehensive and clear; Workspaces, branching, shelve sets, the things that devs need to understand are now clear in my mind. You don't need to read this book from cover to cover, you can just dive in on a topic that you need help on and you will find the information presented in a clear and concise way. Brilliant, should be on ever devs desk. Thanks to the authors for all the hard work that must have gone into this book.

Eddy Young

Essential reading for anyone planning to deploy and manage TFS 2013

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 12, 2015

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Very thorough explanation of how TFS 2013 works and how to manage a deployment. By the time I read this, the licensing terms described in the book had changed (e.g. stakeholders do not require purchased Client Access Licence), but the updated terms can always be found on Microsoft web site.

The book is written so well that it took me only one reading before I was confident to set up our own TFS 2013 server at work and manage it.

Jason H.

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 4, 2015

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Have not finished the book yet but am enjoying reading it

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