Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

December 2005 - Buck Hodges

How to improve command line performance

December 12, 2005 Dec 12, 2005 12/12/05
Buck Hodges
If you are using the tf.exe command line in scripts to convert from another version control system or to run other tasks that involve a lot of calls, there are several factors that have a large impact on the performance.  Other than the command files, all of the following applies to Visual Studio as well, but VS has the ...

Backing up and restoring Team Foundation

December 9, 2005 Dec 9, 2005 12/9/05
Buck Hodges
Rob Caron posted a link to the re-launched VSTS User Education team blog.  It includes a post of the procedures for backing up and restoring Team Foundation Server.  That includes the databases, SharePoint, reports, etc.  It also includes restoring TFS to a different server.  There have been lots of requests for this in the...

The “Filter by solution” button

December 8, 2005 Dec 8, 2005 12/8/05
Buck Hodges
You are probably familiar with the Pending Changes window if you've been using Visual Studio with Team Foundation (View -> Other Windows -> Pending Changes).  Have you ever wanted to have the Pending Changes window show only the pending changes for files in the currently open solution and not all of the other changes in your ...

Warehouse troubleshooting guide

December 7, 2005 Dec 7, 2005 12/7/05
Buck Hodges
Bryan MacFarlane posted a troubleshooting guide for warehouse problems in the MSDN Team Foundation Forum.  If you are having problems with your warehouse or reports, it's a good resource to try to figure out what's going wrong...

Source Control Explorer now shows more information about the state of items

December 7, 2005 Dec 7, 2005 12/7/05
Buck Hodges
One of the problems that users encounter when using Source Control Explorer is knowing what state the file or folder is in, particularly if it is shown in gray rather than black text.  In beta 3 refresh and ealier, gray text meant that the file or folder was unmapped, cloaked, deleted, or not downloaded.  There was no way to ...

Using VS to get the URI for a Team Project

December 5, 2005 Dec 5, 2005 12/5/05
Buck Hodges
Someone asked a question today about getting the URI for a Team Project.  James Manning's Team Project code sample showed how to do it using the API.  However, that was overkill in this case.  Bill Essary pointed out that you can select the Team Project in Team Explorer, right-click on it, and choose Properties (rather than ...