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Dec 16, 2010
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Join the TFS development team and help shape the industry

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

Do you want to be a developer on the TFS team, solve challenging problems, and break new ground in ALM?  Then join the TFS development team in Redmond, WA.You’ll notice that we mention cloud computing with Azure below.  If you saw the PDC keynote demos this year, you saw some early work on getting TFS running on Azure.  If you ...

Team Foundation Server
Nov 11, 2010
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Help improve MSDN – give them your feedback

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

Please take a moment to provide feedback to the documentation team on the changes they’ve made recently.  They want to know what you think.  Thanks! We need your input on how well our improvements to the MSDN Library content work for you. Allen Clark has reorganized the topic: "Extending Visual Studio Application Lifecycle ...

Team Foundation Server
Sep 30, 2010
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How to convert a branch back to a regular folder

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

In an effort to remove a small amount of complexity from the UI, we have the command to convert a branch back to a folder appear only under the main menu and not in the right click menu.  The way to convert a branch back to a regular folder is to do the following. Why would you want to do this?  The reason would be just to ...

Source ControlTFS 2010
Aug 30, 2010
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How to figure out whether a change has made it to another branch

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

[UPDATE 11/5/12] I wanted to add that when using either the hierarchy view or the track changeset view, you can use Ctrl-C when the window has focus to get an image of it copied to the clipboard rather than having to use a screenshot tool. One of the great features in TFS 2010 is the ability to track changesets across branches. A prime user ...

Team Foundation ServerSource ControlTFS 2010
Jul 17, 2010
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How to use the MSBuild debugger in Visual Studio 2010

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

Dan Moseley, dev lead for msbuild, wrote a debugger for msbuild while on leave(!) back during the 2010 cycle.  While it ultimately couldn’t be fully completed and tested to be an official feature, it is in the product with a switch to enable it (it’s off by default).  This was a conscious decision made by the VS team, and I ...

Team BuildMSBuild
Jul 14, 2010
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Reports to show you what’s happening with the TFS warehouse and cube

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

Grant has posted a set of reports that help you understand what’s going on in the TFS warehouse and cube in Team Foundation Server 2010 so that you can deal with issues such as field collisions, which can be very tedious to handle since out of the box we don’t provide easy ways to figure it out.  His post includes an attached zip ...

TFS 2010
Jul 6, 2010
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Team Foundation 2010 SDK published

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

Allen Clark has announced the publication of the first release of the TFS 2010 SDK.  This represents a significant improvement in the documentation for the TFS API, and he will be releasing updates to it on a recurring basis.  The first release is small (relative to the size of the TFS API), but it will grow.  Be sure to leave ...

TFS 2010TFS API
Jun 25, 2010
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Understanding changes in reporting in TFS 2010

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

Sunder Raman, a program manager for TFS, has written a series of posts on the changes to the warehouse and the cube for 2010. Reporting Cube John Socha-Leialoha, a developer on TFS, wrote a series on upgrading your reports. If you are interested in writing your own warehouse adapter, you...

Team Foundation ServerTFS 2010
Jun 15, 2010
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Posts on using the new team project collection APIs

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

Taylor Lafrinere, a developer on Team Foundation Server who wrote a significant part of the new core server infrastructure APIs, has written a series of posts explaining some of the different parts.  If you have other parts of the API that you are interested in, be sure to leave a comment on one of his posts.Here are a few of his posts to get ...

Team Foundation ServerTFS 2010TFS API