Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

March 2007 - Page 2 of 3 - Buck Hodges

Aaron’s back and has new posts on Team Build

March 21, 2007 Mar 21, 2007 03/21/07
Buck Hodges
Aaron Hallberg took a month off after the birth of his daughter, Stella.  Now that he's back, he's got a couple of interesting posts. The first one applies to TFS 2005 (aka v1) and shows you how to pass custom properties to each solution that you build.  It's something that a lot of folks have needed to be able to do, but the ...

TFS shipped one year ago today!

March 17, 2007 Mar 17, 2007 03/17/07
Buck Hodges
As Jeff Beehler points out, we shipped TFS one year ago today.  In the intervening time, we reorganized and completed the TFS development work on Orcas (minus a few design change requests (DCRs)), which you can try out in the March Orcas CTP (since it's based on TFS code from January, not everything is in there, such as build scheduling...

New add-in: Viewing other users’ pending changes from within Visual Studio

March 14, 2007 Mar 14, 2007 03/14/07
Buck Hodges
Fairly often, someone asks for the ability to see the pending changes in the system from within Visual Studio.  Running "tf status /user:* $/ /r" (or whatever you want) just isn't appealing to everyone. Ognjen Bajic posted about Ekobit's new free VS add-in that will allow you to view the pending changes in the system from within Visual ...

Channel 9 interview and demo of Orcas Team Build

March 14, 2007 Mar 14, 2007 03/14/07
Buck Hodges
The interview, which contains a demo, has finally been posted (you may remember it being mentioned in December).  I'd like to say thanks to Brian Keller for doing this! Continuous Integration with Team Build “Orcas” Jim Lamb and Buck Hodges on the Team Foundation Server team show off the new Continuous Integration support ...

I’m in Redmond

March 4, 2007 Mar 4, 2007 03/4/07
Buck Hodges
I don't travel much.  It's been almost exactly a year since I was in Redmond.  In March 2006, Ed Hintz and I gave a presentation on version control.This time Jim Lamb and I are here to learn about some of the internal build systems as part of our planning for the future.  Well, Jim's here to party with the PMs as well.  I ...