Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

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When can I get the Team Foundation Server?

June 10, 2004 Jun 10, 2004 06/10/04
Buck Hodges
Several people have asked this question.  The server is not included in the May Community Preview distributed at TechEd.  Also, the server bits will not be included with the upcoming VS 2005 Beta 1 release.  In fact, none of Team System will be in Beta 1, so the May Community Preview release at TechEd is it for a ...

Migrating from SourceSafe to Team Foundation Server

June 10, 2004 Jun 10, 2004 06/10/04
Buck Hodges
We plan to provide migration tools for users switching to TFS.  A VSS user asked in the newsgroup about migrating VSS labels, revision history, sharing, and pinning.The goal is migration of all data, consisting of projects, files, and folders, with associated metadata reliably with minimal information loss while preserving user ...

12 GB CompactFlash card

June 10, 2004 Jun 10, 2004 06/10/04
Buck Hodges
Of course you can get microdrives, but if the moving parts make you nervous, Pretec offers a 12 GB flash card.  It's only $14,900.  Then you'll need a $60,000 digital camera to go with it.  Somehow that nifty $3,000 Nikon D2H just seems inadequate.http://www.dpreview.com/news/0405/04052601pretec12gb.asp...

VSTS Newsgroups

June 4, 2004 Jun 4, 2004 06/4/04
Buck Hodges
The VSTS 2005 page mentions the newsgroups for VSTS (in the Community Resources section beside the "Ask the Team" column). It doesn't stand out, though, and so a lot of people may not realize they are there. The newsgroups are actively monitored by a large number of VSTS folks, so it's a great way to interact and provide feedback (you'll ...

Branching models

June 4, 2004 Jun 4, 2004 06/4/04
Buck Hodges
Doug Neumann, our PM, posted on the Team Foundation newsgroupmicrosoft.private.whidbey.teamsystem.teamfoundation newsgroup a nice answer to a question about branching models and VSTS.Question (Carl Daniel): IEEE Computer, September 2002 issue contained an article entitled "the importance of branching models in SCM". Since we can't really ...

Dev303 summary, more blogs

May 28, 2004 May 28, 2004 05/28/04
Buck Hodges
Thanks to Rob Caron there are good notes on Brian Harry's presentation. DEV303 - Visual Studio Team System: Enterprise-Class Source Control and Work Item TrackingKevin Kelly (also in North Carolina) has started a weblog, opening with “Why Work Item Tracking?”  Ask him if they can add make work items ...

Doug Neumann on Software Configuration Management with Burton

May 24, 2004 May 24, 2004 05/24/04
Buck Hodges
Doug's the program manager for Source Control in Visual Studio 2005 Team Server, and his talk will look at doing details of software configuration management with VSTS. Doug's and Brian's talks cover different ground and will really give you a feel for what we're doing. DEVC32 How-To: Managing Software Configurations with Visual ...

Visual Studio 2005 Team System (aka Burton)

May 24, 2004 May 24, 2004 05/24/04
Buck Hodges
The official web site for Visual Studio 2005 Team System is now live, including a Burton blog called AskBurton. I am a developer working on the Burton source control system (Team Foundation), which we code-named Hatteras. Over time I plan to add details about Hatteras and how it works. Here is a good description of Team Foundation ...