January 2007

Five things about me

January 10, 2007 Jan 10, 2007 01/10/07

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,&...

TFS Version Control Server Team blog is alive

January 9, 2007 Jan 9, 2007 01/9/07

Buck Hodges

Chandru, a developer on the TFS version control server, has written the first post on the Version Control Server Team blog. I helped Craig Harry, development lead for TFS version control platform, set this blog up a while back, so I'm excited to see the first post. Craig's team owns both the version ...

Orcas Team Build Continuous Integration spec is now available

January 6, 2007 Jan 6, 2007 01/6/07

Buck Hodges

Back in early December, I wrote the post, More on the Orcas features for Team Build, that described many of the new features that we are adding for Orcas, elaborating on what Brian Harry had written in his TFS Roadmap post. I'm very happy to say that later in December, we finished the implementation of those features, and they'll be in ...

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

January 6, 2007 Jan 6, 2007 01/6/07

Buck Hodges

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

January 6, 2007 Jan 6, 2007 01/6/07

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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 ...

IE Add-in for filing bugs in TFS for web pages

January 3, 2007 Jan 3, 2007 01/3/07

Buck Hodges

Rob Caron wrote about the post Automatically raise bugs from IE on the Microsoft Developer Tools UK Sales Team blog. Here's the text of the post, and there's a screen shot on the GotDotNet page. Have you ever been in a position where someone raises a bug on a web page that you have been working on, but doesn't supply enough ...

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