Buck Hodges

Director of Engineering, Azure

Director of Engineering, Azure DevOps

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How TFS Version Control determines a file’s encoding

September 10th, 2005
TFS Version Control will automatically detect a file's encoding based upon the following. The only exception to the foregoing is PDF files.  Those are always detected as binary because they are so common and can be all text in the first 1 kilobyte with binary streams later in the file.  The detection is based on the signature, "%...

Team Foundation Version Control client API example

September 9th, 2005
[Update 3/16/2006]  I have decided to remove this version to reduce confusion.  Please see http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2006/03/15/552288.aspx for the RTM v1 example...

Hold the shift key and double click

August 23rd, 2005
I've learned two shortcuts recently that I didn't know existed in TFS source control integration in VS.  These may or may not work based on the build you are using. Double clicking the Source Control node in the Team Explorer will bring up the Source Control Explorer window.  What I learned recently is that holding the shift key and...

Look for TFS Beta 3 in September, RTM in Q1 ’06

August 22nd, 2005
Beta 3 for Team Foundation will be released in September along with Visual Studio 2005 Release Candidate 1.  One of the most significant points with beta 3 is that it will have a go-live license that includes data migration to RTM.  The details are in Soma's blog post for today: Visual Studio 2005 update.Here's a copy of the part ...

Why doesn’t Team Foundation get the latest version of a file on checkout?

August 20th, 2005
I've seen this question come up a few times.  Doug Neumann, our PM, wrote a nice explanation in the Team Foundation forum (http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=70231). It turns out that this is by design, so let me explain the reasoning behind it.  When you perform a get operation to populate your workspace with a ...

Dogfood statistics update

August 20th, 2005
John Lawrence posted the latest set of dogfood system statistics.  The deltas are from May I think, since it says checkins are up 4,500.  The June/early-July statistics are here.  One thing to note is that we now have more than 600,000 files and folders in the system.  Hopefully, we'll hit 1 million in the not too distant ...

Upgraded

July 28th, 2005
The dogfood system is now based on the July CTP (it's nearly the same).  Surprisingly, we had to fix the NIC setting on the production dogfood server.  This time we knew where to look when we saw terrible data transfer rates from the server.  Rather than being explicitly set to half duplex, it was set to auto.  However, it ...

July CTP for Team Foundation is headed your way

July 27th, 2005
Rob Caron just posted that the July CTP is making its way through MSDN now.  As Rob points out, be sure to check out the Known Issues and Readme pages.One of the things that held up the release was we spent Monday trying to figure out why the communication between the source control mid-tier and client was terrible.  Downloads ...

Dogfood statistics update

July 18th, 2005
Here's an update on what's changed since June 1 (John's last update was for May).Users Work items Version control Past 7 days...

Alert settings

July 17th, 2005
Occasionally, the question about how to configure, after installation, the alert email SMTP server and from address setting have come up in the Team Foundation forum.  Alerts are emails that are sent when a check-in occurs in the Team Project you specify, or a work item assigned to you changes.  Users can sign up for alerts by ...