TFS Build Editors and Build Process Metadata

When we perform customization for the build process, we may add some arguments that can be set by editing the build definition. In some cases, the string data type for an argument will be sufficient, but in other cases, it’s not. How about if we want to browse for a file on the source control or if we want to set some settings, etc.? This is why it’s important to know that there are built-in editors and we can develop our own editor as well.

File / Folder Browsing

Function	Class, Assembly
Server folder browser	Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Controls.ServerFolderBrowserEditor, Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Controls
Server file browser	Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Controls.ServerFileBrowserEditor, Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Controls
Local folder browser*	System.Windows.Forms.Design.FolderNameEditor, System.Design
Local file browser*	System.Windows.Forms.Design.FileNameEditor, System.Design

TFS Build Related Editors

Function	Class, Assembly
Build Agent selector	Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Controls.BuildAgentSelectionEditor, Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Controls
Build Number Format Editor	Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Controls.BuildNumberFormatEditor, Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Controls
Project selector	Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Controls.BuildProjectListEditor, Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Controls
Build settings	Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Controls.BuildSettingsEditor, Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Controls
Platform configuration	Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Controls.PlatformConfigurationListEditor, Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Controls
Build Agent Tag	Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Controls.TagsEditor, Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Controls
Test specifications	Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Controls.TestSpecEditor, Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Controls
Test specification list	Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Controls.TestSpecListEditor, Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Controls
Work-item type	Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Controls.WorkItemTypeSelectionEditor, Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Controls

You can create a custom Editor click here and here another one click here The steps to create a custom one, click here

Other Editors

Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Controls.dll:
- Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Controls.EnumPropertyEditor
- Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Controls.StringListEditor
System.Design.dll:
- System.ComponentModel.Design.CollectionEditor
- System.ComponentModel.Design.BinaryEditor
- System.ComponentModel.Design.DateTimeEditor
- System.ComponentModel.Design.MultilineStringEditor
- System.ComponentModel.Design.ObjectSelectorEditor
- System.Windows.Forms.Design.FileNameEditor (+)
- System.Windows.Forms.Design.FolderNameEditor (+)
- System.Windows.Forms.Design.FormatStringEditor
- System.Windows.Forms.Design.ImageIndexEditor (??)
- System.Windows.Forms.Design.LinkAreaEditor
- System.Windows.Forms.Design.MaskedTextBoxTextEditor
- System.Windows.Forms.Design.MaskPropertyEditor
- System.Windows.Forms.Design.ShortcutKeysEditor
- System.Web.UI.Design.ConnectionStringEditor
- System.Web.UI.Design.UrlEditor
- System.Web.UI.Design.XmlFileEditor
- System.Web.UI.Design.RegexTypeEditor
- System.Web.UI.Design.SqlDataSourceQueryEditor
System.Drawing.Design.dll:
- System.Drawing.Design.ImageEditor
- System.Drawing.Design.ColorEditor
- System.Drawing.Design.ContentAlignmentEditor
- System.Drawing.Design.CursorEditor
- System.Drawing.Design.FontEditor
- System.Drawing.Design.FontNameEditor
- System.Drawing.Design.IconEditor
System.Workflow.Activities.dll:
- System.Workflow.Activities.WebServicePickerEditor
- System.Workflow.Activities.StateDropDownEditor
- System.Workflow.Activities.ImageBrowserEditor
- System.Workflow.Activities.LogicalExpressionEditor

For good info about other editors and links, see the following link: Reusable Editors - TFS build arguments

Good links: