TFS 2015 Developer Fundamentals

This course starts by getting developers familiar with the product suite before they create a new Team Project to organise their work. We then move onto Work Item Tracking which is where requirements, tasks, bugs and more are defined and tracked throughout the project.

The central part of the course provides a deep dive into version control topics which is central to a developer’s day to day work. This includes how to branch and merge following best practises before moving into unit testing and code quality features. The course examines the new build automation system introduced in the 2015 product release and finishes with a look at features designed to improve team collaboration such as Team Rooms and Code Review.

Module 1 - Introducing the Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 family

Module 2 - Creating and configuring Team Projects

Module 3 - Understanding and using Work Items

Module 4 - TFS Version Control Concepts

Module 5 - Using Team Foundation Version Control

Module 6 – Configuring an effective Version Control environment

Module 7 – Branching and merging

Module 8 - Unit testing and code quality tools

Module 9 - Build automation

Module 10 – Team collaboration 

At the completion of this course, attendees will be able to;

• Create, configure and manage Team Projects
• Use the Team Explorer to navigate project content
• Manage work using Work Items including configuring links correctly
• Use work items such as Task and Bug to provide traceability
• Create and customise Work Item Queries to find and organise work
• Setup and manage their own custom alerts (notifications)
• Understand core version concepts and how they apply to TFS or VSTS
• Use the source control explorer
• Configure source control folder structures
• Use the version control system effectively including branching and workspaces
• Use the MSSCCI provider to enable backward compatibility for maintaining legacy code
• Work with unit tests and the Test Explorer window
• Use Code Metrics and Static Code Analysis
• Use the new Build system introduced in TFS 2015 and Visual Studio Team Services
• Work with legacy XAML build definitions
• Improve team collaboration using Team Rooms and Code Review

This course is designed for all Visual Studio 2015 developers who are starting work in a team with either Visual Studio Team Services or Team Foundation Server. The course focuses on features common to both the professional and enterprise editions of Visual Studio 2015.

Attendees should have some familiarity with Visual Studio and either Visual Basic or C#.