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Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)
September 29, 2005Sep 29, 200509/29/05Chris Menegay’s article on MSDN, Using Source Code Control in Team Foundation, provides a good overview of some of the major features.
As a part of Visual Studio 2005 Team System and the new Team Foundation Server, Microsoft is providing a true enterprise-class source code control system.
September 27, 2005Sep 27, 200509/27/05Akash Maheshwari
, PM for the source control converters for TFS, has posted a set of articles on using the VSS converter with TFS beta 3. You’ll want to check that out if you are converting from VSS, because that’s the most up-to-date source of information.
September 26, 2005Sep 26, 200509/26/05If you add the Code Analysis check-in policy to your Team Project, you’ll see two entries for Source Control on the File menu in VS, as shown below.
All of the standard menu items for TFS source control are under the second Source Control entry.
September 26, 2005Sep 26, 200509/26/05Back on July 13, I wrote about the dates of changeset “milestones” in our dogfood system. Today we hit changeset 10,000. The time between 9000 and 10000 was longer than usual because of check-in restrictions in place leading up to beta 3 (bug fixes had to be individually reviewed and approved in ask mode).
September 22, 2005Sep 22, 200509/22/05There have been a lot of requests from folks wanting to use TFS without Active Directory. Since several questions and answers in comments on Jeff Beehler’s blog dealt with this, I thought it’s worth mentioning in a post that TFS beta 3 supports workgroup installations,
September 21, 2005Sep 21, 200509/21/05Today we signed off on Team Foundation Beta 3! If you used beta 2, beta 3 is a vast improvement. Beta 3 should hopefully show up on MSDN in about two days. You may remember that beta 3 has the go-live license and will be supported for migration to the final release version 1,
September 21, 2005Sep 21, 200509/21/05Here in North Carolina, we have a 10Mb connection to the outside world (it was a 3Mb connection until a few months ago), so we know what it’s like to use TFS remotely. In addition to minimizing the number of requests from the client to the server,
September 20, 2005Sep 20, 200509/20/05[NOTE: If this post looks truncated, scroll down or make the browser window wider. The style sheet causes this.]
Ed Hintz, a dev lead on the TFS Version Control team, sends a lot of email with TFS work item numbers. Work items can be viewed (not edited) in a web browser using an URL constructed from the server name and the work item number.
September 19, 2005Sep 19, 200509/19/05Doug Neumann’s TLN301 presentation, VSTS: Behind the Scenes of Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server (slides), featured a demonstration of how to use the server’s check-in event notification to kick off a build for a continuous integration build system using Team Build.
September 12, 2005Sep 12, 200509/12/05Doug Neumann, one of our esteemed Program Managers, is in a short video on Channel 9 talking about our office, version control, the proxy, etc. He and Mario, our other version control PM, are at PDC this week.
Doug Neumann – Source Code control guy on VSTS team
