Building an Integration with Visual Studio Team Services API

By Patrick Neborg
Visual Studio's Team Service is widely-used for teams to organize work items and source code management. This course will teach you how to integrate Visual Studio's Team Service within your custom tools and web applications utilizing its REST API.
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Course info
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Jul 7, 2017
Duration
8h 60m
Table of contents
Course Overview
Course Overview 2m
Getting Started
Introduction 2m Setting up Your Visual Studio Team Services Environment 3m Overview of Your Integration Web Application 6m API Versioning 1m Wrap Up 1m
Exploring the REST API
Introduction 2m Authenticate 4m Basic Authentication 7m API Versions 4m Code Web Application Part 1 9m Code Web Application Part 2 10m Demo: Basic Authentication 3m Wrap Up 1m
Accessing the REST API
Introduction 1m OAuth2.0 4m Application Registration 5m Demo: Code OAuth2.0 11m Demo: Code Refresh Token 6m Demo: Code OAuth2.0 View 4m Demo: OAuth2.0 3m Wrap Up 1m
Refreshing the REST API
Introduction 1m Multiple Authorization Clean Up 3m Demo: Code Refresh Token Claim 14m Demo: Refresh Token Claim 3m Wrap Up 1m
Applying Access to Accounts
Introduction 2m Demo: oAuth2.0 Refactor 8m Demo: Team Service Action Filter 7m Demo: API Service Layer 8m Demo: Get Accounts 11m Wrap Up 1m
Working with Projects
Introduction 2m Demo: Get Projects 6m Demo: Get Project Details 12m Asynchronous REST API Operations 3m Demo: Code Update Project 15m Demo: Update Project 2m Wrap Up 1m
Working with Teams
Introduction 1m Demo: Get Teams 8m Demo: Code Update Team 9m Demo: Code Update Team Views 8m Demo: Update Team 2m Wrap Up 1m
Interacting with TFS Version Control
Introduction 2m Why Angular? 2m Demo: Get Changesets Paged List Part 1 12m Demo: Get Changesets Paged List Part 2 9m Demo: Get Changesets Paged List Part 3 10m Demo: Get Paged List of Changes Part 1 12m Demo: Get Paged List of Changes Part 2 11m Download Versioned File 4m Demo: Download Versioned File 12m Demo: Source Code Tree Part 1 13m Demo: Source Code Tree Part 2 14m Demo: Source Code Tree 2m Wrap Up 1m
Interacting with Git Version Control
Introduction 1m Git Overview 9m Git Repository Integration 9m Demo: Git Repository Integration Part 1 13m Demo: Git Repository Integration Part 2 10m Demo: Git Repository Integration Part 3 15m Demo: Git Repository Integration 3m Demo: Branch Commits and Code Tree Part 1 7m Demo: Branch Commits and Code Tree Part 2 12m Demo: Download Folders and Files 10m Wrap Up 2m
Tracking Work Tasks
Introduction 3m Work Item Integration 4m Demo: Search Work Items Part 1 8m Demo: Search Work Items Part 2 10m Demo: Search Work Items 2m Stored Query 4m Demo: Query Work Item 12m Update Work Item 3m Demo: Update Work Item 10m Wrap Up 1m
Test Management
Introduction 1m Test Manager Extension 4m Test Plan Overview 4m Test Plan and Suite Integration 3m Demo: Test Plan and Suite Part 1 7m Demo: Test Plan and Suite Part 2 9m Manage Test Plan and Suite Integration 3m Demo: Manage Test Plan and Suite Coding 12m Demo: Manage Test Plan and Suite 4m Test Case Integration 2m Demo: Test Case Integration 10m Test Run Integration 4m Demo: Test Run 9m Wrap Up 2m
Description
Course info
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Jul 7, 2017
Duration
8h 60m
Description

Visual Studio Team Service and even Team Foundation Server on premise provide a great deal of features and capabilities out of the box. In this course, Building an Integration with Visual Studio Team Services API, it is very advantageous for you to be able to integrate Visual Studio Team Services features and capabilities directly into your own development team's custom tools and web applications. You will learn how to authenticate with Visual Studio Team Service's API using basic authentication and OAuth 2.0. You will be able to use the rich API provided by Microsoft for Visual Studio Team Service and even Team Foundation server to expand your team's software development life cycle by accessing and updating team, project, and source code metadata kept within Visual Studio Team Services. When you are finished with this course, you will have constructed an API integration framework utilizing Asp.Net MVC that your team can use to directly interact with teams and projects, work items, source code management of both Git and Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC), and test management.

About the author
Patrick Neborg
About the author

Patrick Neborg is a Solution Architect for Aon. Patrick has been developing software solutions for over 20 years. Today, he focuses on Cloud Solutions.

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Section Introduction Transcripts
Section Introduction Transcripts

Course Overview
Hi everyone. My name is Patrick Neborg, and welcome to my course on Building an Integration with Visual Studio Team Services API. I'm a senior architect at Software, creator of the best non-profit donor management system known as Donor Perfect. Visual Studio Team Services is widely used across development teams to successfully manage their projects and source code collaboratively making it an ideal platform to integrate directly with our own custom tools and applications through its API. In this course, we're going to learn how to build an integration with Visual Studio Team Services API for custom tools and processes that can be used by your development teams to work with Visual Studio Team Services. Some of the major topics that we'll include are OAuth 2. 0 authentication to securely allow your team members to access their own accounts with Visual Studio team services accessing and updating teams and projects, interacting with work items and test management services, and integrating with Git and Team foundation version control repositories. By the end of this course, you'll know how to create your own Visual Studio Team Services API framework to build your own custom tools and processes for your development and project teams. Before beginning the course, you should be familiar with Visual Studio Team Services or Team Foundation Server common features, as well as ASP. NET MVC. From here, you should feel comfortable diving into consuming REST-based API's with courses on Visual Studio Team Services, Team Foundation Server, ASP. NET MVC, or OAuth 2. 0. I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn about this REST API with building an integration with Visual Studio Team Services API course, at Pluralsight.

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