Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)
November 30, 2005Nov 30, 200511/30/05I just read Ian Griffiths’ post on C# 3.0 and LINQ – Expression Trees (linked from Jomo Fisher’s C# 3.0 post, which was linked in John Rivard’s Why Visual Studio targets only one version of the .NET Framework, which was in a link from Soma’s Multi-targeting of .NET FX in Visual Studio post,
November 28, 2005Nov 28, 200511/28/05John Lawrence responded to someone’s question about how to diff MS Word documents, and I thought the answer would help a few more folks.
Team Foundation enables you to specify different diff and merge tools for different file types.
We don’t have a built in compare tool for .doc files but I did a quick search and found quite a few available for download (e.g.
November 22, 2005Nov 22, 200511/22/05The last time I wrote about the VPC for beta 3, it didn’t make up to MSDN like it was supposed to. Well, a beta 3 VPC is available now, and a beta 3 refresh VPC will be available as soon as it makes its way through the infrastructure (yeah,
November 18, 2005Nov 18, 200511/18/05Jeff Beehler just checked in another 100,000 files, pushing us over 1,000,000 files. We now have 1,042,659 files in the dogfood system. Brian Harry sent out a dogfood statistics update in email today, prior to Jeff’s check-in. Watch for the latest stats on John Lawrence’s blog.
November 16, 2005Nov 16, 200511/16/05[UPDATE 8/9/2007] I fixed the broken link to the power tools page.
[UPDATE 9/8/2006] TFPT is now available in its own small download: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=5422499! You no longer need to download the VS SDK. You can find more information about the September ’06 release here.
Back at the start of October,
November 16, 2005Nov 16, 200511/16/05If you install only the Team Explorer (and not VSTS), there is a known issue (7.3) where the diff viewer won’t work. It also affects the built-in merge tool, but I think that’s less painful for users who just need Team Explorer.
November 16, 2005Nov 16, 200511/16/05Allen Clark has posted the document on upgrading beta 3 to RTM so you’ll know what to expect.
Preparing to upgrade to RTM
If you’re using Beta 3 Refresh, you may be wondering what you can do now to make the server upgrade to RTM as painless as possible.
November 16, 2005Nov 16, 200511/16/05You still won’t be able to drag and drop in Source Control Explorer (some changes are just too large at this point), but you will be able to go to a changeset (without going through the back door using Get Specific Version solely for changeset look up).
November 15, 2005Nov 15, 200511/15/05About half way through a thread on unlocking files locked by another user, Brian wrote a long response in the Team Foundation Forum about deciding what changes to make at this point and knowing when to ship. It’s a good read.
November 1, 2005Nov 1, 200511/1/05I’ve written about using the SoapHttpClientProtocol subclasses generated by wsdl.exe several times over the last year, including handling authentication, HTTP response codes, and setting timeouts properly. Today I needed to change the code in TFS to better handle characters that are not allowed in XML.
The problem is that if you have a method on your web service that takes a String parameter,
