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.

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.

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 Coded 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

Modeling

• Extending UML Models and Diagrams

• Extending Layer Diagrams

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