Team Foundation Core Services

Team Foundation Core Services enable customers and partners to extend Team Foundation functionality by developing Team System extensions and adapters to integrate third-party tools with Team System.

In This Section

  • Essentials
    Describes how to connect to a Team Foundation server, authenticate users, and work with Team Foundation Server properties and services.

  • Eventing Service
    Explains how Team Foundation Server components communicate by raising events and listening for events.

  • Linking Service
    Explains how Team Foundation Server can create a link between two artifacts that were created by different tools.

  • Security Service
    Describes the unified security model used by Team Foundation Server to manage users, groups, and permissions. Also, it explains how to integrate extensions into the security model

  • Registration Service
    Explains how to discover other services registered on a Team Foundation server. Also, it states that all new extensions must be registered on the server by using this service.

See Also

Other Resources

Team Foundation Server SDK

Team Foundation Server Product Overview