Extending Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management

You can customize some aspects of Visual Studio to extend existing features or to add new capabilities if you have special requirements. For example, you might define new test conditions for database unit tests if the test conditions provided with Visual Studio Premium or Visual Studio Ultimate are insufficient to address your requirements.

Some of the extensibility points are provided with your Visual Studio installation. For other extensibility points, you must also install the Visual Studio SDK. You can identify the specific requirements for each extensibility point in the content that supports that extensibility point.

Team Foundation

• Extending Team Foundation

  • Connect to Team Foundation Server from a Console Application

  • Extending Work Item Tracking by Using the Client Object Model for Team Foundation

  • Extending Version Control

  • Events

  • Warehouse and Reports

• Client Object Model Reference

• Server Object Model Reference

• Build Service Object Model Reference

IntelliTrace

• API Reference for IntelliTrace Extensibility

Database features

• Extending the Database Features of Visual Studio

  • Create Custom Database Refactoring Types or Targets

  • Create and Register Additional Rules for Analyzing Database Code

  • Generate Specialized Test Data with a Custom Data Generator

  • Define Custom Conditions for Database Unit Tests

  • Customize Database Build and Deployment by Using Build and Deployment Contributors

  • Create Custom Features for Database Projects

  • How to: Register and Manage Feature Extensions

  • How to: Distribute Custom Feature Extensions to Team Members

• Troubleshooting Feature Extensions

• API Reference for Database Features of Visual Studio

Testing

• Customizing for Testing By Using the Visual Studio SDK

  • Creating a Diagnostic Data Adapter to Collect Custom Data or Affect a Test Machine

  • Testing the User Interface with Automated UI Tests

  • Extending Coded UI Tests and Action Recordings to Support Microsoft Excel

  • Verifying Code by Using Unit Tests

• API Reference for Testing Tools for Visual Studio ALM