Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

TFS 11: API for teams and understanding burn down charts

May 23, 2012 May 23, 2012 05/23/12

Buck Hodges

Ivan Popek has been spending a lot of time lately digging into TFS 11. He has written a series of posts on the APIs for teams in TFS 11, and he explains the burn down chart trend lines. Follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/tfsbuck...

Perf counters in TFS 11

May 22, 2012 May 22, 2012 05/22/12

Buck Hodges

Jim Szubryt has written a post listing the perf counters available in all versions of TFS and calls out the new ones in TFS 11. Check it out if you are looking at the performance of your server. New Perfmon Counters With TFS 11 Beta Whether you are a small company running TFS or a large Enterprise there may come a time for you too ...

TFS 11 Beta upgrade: Existing workflows that have custom workflow activities using the TFS client OM

March 19, 2012 Mar 19, 2012 03/19/12

Buck Hodges

Duat, a developer on Team Foundation Build, has written a blog post on how to resolve post-upgrade issues with your build workflow if your 2010 build workflow uses custom workflow activities that use the TFS client object model. Your custom assemblies need update, or else, redirecting Loading your custom assemblies in the TFS 11 build ...

Running only impacted tests in TFS 2010 Build

March 12, 2012 Mar 12, 2012 03/12/12

Buck Hodges

Richard Hundhausen pointed out this blog post recently, and I thought I’d mention it here. Rob Maher walks through the process of setting up a build definition to run only the tests that involve the code that was changed. TFS 2010 Build - Only run impacted tests If your tests take a long time to run, you may wish to only run ...

Team Foundation Version Control client API example for TFS 2010 and newer

March 10, 2012 Mar 10, 2012 03/10/12

Buck Hodges

Over six years ago, I posted a sample on how to use the version control API. The API changed in TFS 2010, but I hadn’t updated the sample. Here is a version that works with 2010 and newer and is a little less aggressive on clean up in the finally block. This is a really simple example that uses the version control API. ...

Updating a team project to use new features after upgrading to TFS 11 Beta

March 5, 2012 Mar 5, 2012 03/5/12

Buck Hodges

[UPDATE 3/12/12] Aaron pointed out Ewald's recent detailed blog post that walks through adding optional metadata beyond the MSDN article: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2012/03/06/get-your-agile-project-fixed-after-an-upgrade-from-tfs2010-to-tfs11-beta.aspx. Team Foundation Server 11 Beta can be used to upgrade your existing ...

Permission error with creating a team project from VS 2010 on TFS 2012

March 5, 2012 Mar 5, 2012 03/5/12

Buck Hodges

You must use the Visual Studio Team Explorer 2012 (included in all Visual Studio editions or may be separately downloaded) to create a team project on a TFS 2012 server. If you use VS 2010, you will get an error about not having permission. The error message is very misleading, because it’s not a problem with your permissions...

Listing the work items associated with changesets for a path

February 1, 2012 Feb 1, 2012 02/1/12

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Philip wrote a simple app to list the work items associated with the changesets for a given path, and it’s in some ways an enhanced update of Naren’s post. Given an URL to a collection and a server path (e.g., $/myproject/coolthing), it will list the work items that are associated with the most recent 25 checkins. This sample...

How to get the TFS objects used in our own UI integration

January 25, 2012 Jan 25, 2012 01/25/12

Buck Hodges

Philip, a dev on version control, recently helped with a question on how to get the TFS objects we use in our UI. I thought I’d post since others may find it useful. We recently had a request from a customer for a VS add-in that would be able to access the same TfsTeamProjectCollection and VersionControlServer objects that our ...

A tool to find duplicate copies in a build

January 21, 2012 Jan 21, 2012 01/21/12

Buck Hodges

As part of our builds, quite a few projects copy files to the binaries directory or other locations. These can be anything from image files to test scripts. To have our builds complete more quickly, we use the multi-process option (/maxcpucount) of msbuild to build projects in parallel. This all sounds normal, so what’s the ...

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