Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

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Customizing the new TreeDiff power toy

September 13, 2006 Sep 13, 2006 09/13/06
Buck Hodges
If you haven't seen the new TreeDiff, you can see a screen shot in Brian Harry's post about the new release.  It provides a VSS-style project difference tool that allows you not only to see what's changed but also reconcile changes.Tan Phan, a developer on the version control client team, has written a post describing how to customize the...

Getting web sites precompiled with Team Build

September 13, 2006 Sep 13, 2006 09/13/06
Buck Hodges
Aaron Hallberg wrote a great post explaining how to build precompiled web sites with Team Build.  The problem is that building them does not, by default, produce precompiled websites where all of the code is in dlls and removed from the ASP.NET source files. Team Build and aspnet_compiler.exe ... Because Team Build typically compiles...

Sample reports that use the TFS reporting feature

September 9, 2006 Sep 9, 2006 09/9/06
Buck Hodges
If you are interested in the TFS reporting feature, you may want to check out the sample reports in the zip file attached to the following blog post. Sample Team System Reports This attachment contains a variety of samples, experiments and untested reports for use with the Team Foundation Data warehouse. There is a brief overview document ...

More power: New power toy release (tfpt) includes VSS-style project difference!

September 7, 2006 Sep 7, 2006 09/7/06
Buck Hodges
[UPDATE 8/9/07]  I fixed the broken link to the power tools page.Brian Harry announced the latest release of the Team Foundation Power Toys in the post, New TFS Power Toys Available!.  In his post he gives a quick description of each of the new commands and the major enhancements.One of the most important aspects of this release is ...

TFS tools on CodePlex

September 7, 2006 Sep 7, 2006 09/7/06
Buck Hodges
I ran two searches on CodePlex to see what folks are developing for TFS.  One search was for "TFS" and the other was for "Team Foundation," which I hope would be enough to catch them all.  The second search only yielded one additional project (Time Tracker).It's always cool to see what folks come up with.  Highly-motivated ...

Filtering the builds listed in work item tracking

September 5, 2006 Sep 5, 2006 09/5/06
Buck Hodges
As soon as folks start using Team Build, especially with some sort of continuous integration support, several issues pop up regarding the integration with work item tracking, including how not to have bad builds listed and how not to have every build from every build type listed.When TFS is installed, work item tracking adds a subscription, ...