Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

Five things about me

Martin Woodward tagged me with that blogging game that's going around where you post five things that people don't generally know about you and then tag five more people.  Okay, I have to admit it seems kind of fun, so I'll do my part to keep it going. I'm tagging Jeff Beehler, Aaron Hallberg, Mario Rodriguez, Jeff Atwood,&...

How to deal with the Y2K7 problem — file versions and AssemblyInfoTask

If you use the AssemblyInfoTask to stamp the version numbers for your assemblies that you build with MSBuild as part of your Team Build process, you may run into the "Y2K7" problem.  The version number is stored as a 16-bit (yes, 16 not 32) unsigned integer.  With the format YMMDD, January 1, 2007 becomes 70101, which is 70,101 and ...

Beeps from bullets

Way back near the beginning of development of TFS version control, which was called Hatteras back then, we sent email to the team manually when we checked in.  So I would typically write my checkin comment in Outlook, which was using Microsoft Word as the editor, and then paste it into the checkin dialog.  My comment was a ...