Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

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ClickOnce manifests and Team Build

August 9, 2006 Aug 9, 2006 08/9/06
Buck Hodges
Eric Charran has written a nice post on dealing with ClickOnce manifests in Team Build. Building a ClickOnce Manifest File with Team Foundation Services Team Build Issue: When building a ClickOnce application using Team Foundation Build Services, the goal is to modify the details contained within the .application deployment manifest file to ...

Continuous Integration with Team Build

August 9, 2006 Aug 9, 2006 08/9/06
Buck Hodges
Jeff Atwood started out with the continuous integration with MSDN CI sample for Team Build.  Then he made improvements to it and posted it as a A Kinder, Gentler Continuous Integration service for Team Foundation Server.  You can use Abhinaba's build notification tools to keep track of how it's going. A Kinder, Gentler ...

Two more ways to get build notifications

August 9, 2006 Aug 9, 2006 08/9/06
Buck Hodges
Abhinaba Basu posted his second Team Build power toy build notification app.  Previously he had posted a Team Build RSS feed power toy.  Today he posted his desktop notification app, which he calls BuildTicker. Team Build Ticker: parting gift I had blogged earlier about the BuildTicker tool which sits on the system tray and ...

Team Build Extensibility

August 9, 2006 Aug 9, 2006 08/9/06
Buck Hodges
There's a document in the Visual Studio 2005 SDK that describes the extensibility points in Team Build.  I have the April release of the SDK, so it's located at C:\Program Files\Visual Studio 2005 SDK\2006.04\VisualStudioTeamSystemIntegration\Team Build\Team Build Extensibility.doc. The SDK is a huge download, so I'm attaching the ...

Using an SMTP server that requires authentication

July 21, 2006 Jul 21, 2006 07/21/06
Buck Hodges
Bill Essary provided the following as a work around for using a Team Foundation Server email notifications with an SMTP server that requires a user name and password. TFS does not directly support using a username and password to connect to an SMTP server but it is possible to work around this limitation by using an SMTP virtual server on the ...

Removing the Team Foundation Server association in Microsoft Project and Microsoft Excel files

July 19, 2006 Jul 19, 2006 07/19/06
Buck Hodges
Here's a handy tip if you find yourself needing to disassociate or unbind a Microsoft Project (.mpp) or Microsoft Excel (.xls) file from a Team Foundation Server, perhaps because you changed the name of the server, the server no longer exists, etc.Microsoft ProjectYogita Manghnani, a PM for TFS, posted the following process in the ...

Team Foundation Server and CodePlex

July 1, 2006 Jul 1, 2006 07/1/06
Buck Hodges
If you haven't seen CodePlex, you'll want to check it out.  It's Microsoft's shared community development web site, and it uses TFS to host development projects.  Brad Wilson of the CodePlex team provides some nice answers to about 10 questions of general interest on TFS and CodePlex. Answering Questions About CodePlex and TFS Phil ...