Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

Data tier load with Team Foundation beta

Did you install your beta data tier in Virtual PC or Virtual Server and see a high CPU load while its running?  Even on real hardware, you may notice some load when nothing would appear to be going on.  Someone mentioned on an internal mailing list that the data tier CPU load for a combined app and data tier installed ...

VSTS pricing announced

VSTS pricing is always a popular topic (see posts in January and June).  Finally the speculation is over, and the pricing was announced publicly today.Microsoft Details Pricing and Licensing for Visual Studio 2005 and Simplifies Microsoft Developer Network Subscriptionshttp://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/mar05/03-21VS2005PR...

Team Foundation Dogfood

We're rapidly approaching the time for Whidbey Beta 2.  It is the first beta for Team System as a whole.  As a part of that, we'll be using it as our dogfood system.  I'm really looking forward to that, as each new dogfood "release" allows us to make more extensive use of features in the system.  We also get features ...

Network programming links

Adarsh Khare, who is a tester for the .NET networking classes, has useful blog.  Recent posts include the new NetworkInformation namespace that includes things like network availability events and a reference to an MSDN article on running ASMX without IIS...