Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

March 2016 - Buck Hodges

Using VS Team Services Web Hooks with Azure Functions

March 31, 2016 Mar 31, 2016 03/31/16
Buck Hodges
Today at the Build 2016 conference, Azure announced a new feature called Azure Functions. Here’s a quick description from the main page. Azure Functions is an event driven, compute-on-demand experience that extends the existing Azure application platform with capabilities to implement code triggered by events occurring in virtually any ...

Using Zapier to email work items to my backlog in VSTS

March 25, 2016 Mar 25, 2016 03/25/16
Buck Hodges
I use the board view of the backlog in my VS Team Services personal account to keep track of my work. I’ve wanted to be able to email a work item to my backlog, and today I finally got around to doing it. It was really easy thanks to our Zapier integration. I signed up for Zapier using the link on the Marketplace page, and that was great ...

Gated checkin for Git: Using Branch Policies to run a build in VSTS and TFS

March 20, 2016 Mar 20, 2016 03/20/16
Buck Hodges
Let’s start with what gated checkin is, which is a feature we shipped as part of TFS 2010. Gated checkin enforces that a change in a branch builds and optionally passes tests (and anything else you want to do as part of your build) before it is checked in and available to everyone else in the branch. The gated checkin process we shipped ...

Git Credential Manager is now installed by Git for Windows

March 18, 2016 Mar 18, 2016 03/18/16
Buck Hodges
Beginning with version 2.7.3, Git for Windows includes the Git Credential Manager (GCM) that makes authenticating with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) a breeze with both Microsoft Accounts (MSAs fka LiveIDs) and Azure Active Directory (AAD) identities. Since GCM is installed by default, you’ll get prompted for credentials when running git...

Tenth anniversary of Team Foundation Server

March 17, 2016 Mar 17, 2016 03/17/16
Buck Hodges
Today marks the tenth anniversary of shipping TFS 2005, which was our first version. We shipped nearly six months late – VS 2005 shipped in November 2005. The product has evolved an incredible amount since then. The most infamous part of the first version was how hard it was to install (we completely rewrote our setup in TFS 2010). We spent...