Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

Please send error reports when prompted

A couple of months ago, Jeff Lucovsky wrote about filing watson reports for Team Foundation.  When you log in as an administrator on the application tier for TFS, you may be greeted with a dialog asking if you would like to report errors to Microsoft.  Likewise, if Visual Studio crashes, you may be asked to report the error to ...

Skip the June CTP for Team Foundation

The June CTP of VS 2005 includes Team Foundation Server.  However, this is not the June CTP discussed in the Team Foundation MSDN forums and elsewhere.  That CTP is now scheduled for July (it was the last week of June, so it didn't change much).  So, anywhere you've see a reference to the June CTP for TFS in the forums...

CVS compared with Team Foundation Version Control

In the Team Foundation forum a question was asked regarding CVS compared to Team Foundation Version Control.  Here's what I wrote. Of course, Team Foundation is much more than version control since we have integrated work item tracking, reporting, etc.I'm biased, of course, and I'm probably leaving stuff out.  I've used CVS in the ...

How to use the TF version control command line from VS 2003 and other environments

We've had a lot of customer feedback on wanting integration in VS 2003, VB6, etc.  The problem with the VS 2003 environment is that there can only be a single version of the CLR loaded into a process.  VS 2003 loads 1.1.  The TF source control integration requires that the 2.0 CLR be used.  Thus, our VS integration code won...