{"id":403,"date":"2012-06-07T20:08:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T20:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/buckh\/2012\/06\/07\/how-to-customize-the-build-summary-page-in-tfs-2012-without-a-plug-in\/"},"modified":"2012-06-07T20:08:10","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T20:08:10","slug":"how-to-customize-the-build-summary-page-in-tfs-2012-without-a-plug-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/how-to-customize-the-build-summary-page-in-tfs-2012-without-a-plug-in\/","title":{"rendered":"How to customize the build summary page in TFS 2012 without a plug-in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/jpricket\">Jason Prickett<\/a> has been writing some great posts about the new features in Build for TFS 2012.&#160; One of my favorites is the ability for you to add sections to the build summary page without having to write any plug-ins.&#160; You just use the WriteCustomSummaryInformation activity in your workflow or make the equivalent OM calls from a workflow activity.&#160; The result is that you can display results, hyperlinks, and more on the build summary page.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/jpricket\/archive\/2012\/06\/07\/tfs11-rc-simple-build-summary-customization.aspx\">TFS11 RC \u2013 Simple Build Summary Customization<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, I did a few posts when TFS 2010 released on how developers could customize the Visual Studio Build Details View. However, it required creating a VS Add-In or Package and then deploying that to all your clients. Well, with the RC release of TFS 11 and Visual Studio, there is a much easier way to add simple content to your Build Details Summary view.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/jpricket\/archive\/2012\/06\/07\/tfs11-rc-simple-build-summary-customization.aspx\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here\u2019s a screen shot showing a \u201cMy New Section\u201d that he added.&#160; Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2019\/03\/3531.image_62E5A4E6.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Prickett has been writing some great posts about the new features in Build for TFS 2012.&#160; One of my favorites is the ability for you to add sections to the build summary page without having to write any plug-ins.&#160; You just use the WriteCustomSummaryInformation activity in your workflow or make the equivalent OM calls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":10268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,12],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-team-foundation","tag-tfs-2012"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Jason Prickett has been writing some great posts about the new features in Build for TFS 2012.&#160; One of my favorites is the ability for you to add sections to the build summary page without having to write any plug-ins.&#160; You just use the WriteCustomSummaryInformation activity in your workflow or make the equivalent OM calls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}