Buck Hodges

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Team Foundation Version Control Command Line Reference document

February 3rd, 2005
The docs are now on MSDN.Command Line Reference (Visual Studio Team Foundation...

Team Foundation Version Control command line summary

February 3rd, 2005
Rob Caron put together a very nice one-page command line summary for h.exe.  I've posted it as an article (Team Foundation Version Control Command Line Summary document).  Check it out if you want to see the list of command and options for h.exe...

Team Foundation Version Control Command Line Summary document

February 3rd, 2005
Command line summary for tf.exe.  This was put together by Rob Caron.You may also want to see the full Team Foundation Version Control Command Line Reference as well.This is pre-release documentation and is subject to change in future releases...

Setting Internet Explorer’s home page by drag and drop

February 2nd, 2005
Tim, who worked on IE among other things in his career at Microsoft and now works on Hatteras, showed me tonight that you can set the home page in Internet Explorer by dragging the link from the Address bar to the Home icon on the toolbar.  I had no idea.  I burst out laughing.  It's a neat trick once you know it, but it ...

Timeouts on the HttpWebRequest (and thus SOAP proxies)

February 1st, 2005
Last summer I wrote several posts on using HttpWebRequest and SOAP proxies.  Recently I was working on code that needed to handle requests that could take a really long time for the server to process.  The client would give up and close the network connection long before the request completed.The code had tried to control that using ...

Are you looking to convert from ClearCase to Team Foundation?

January 25th, 2005
The Program Manager for the ClearCase converter, Akash Maheshwari, wants to hear from Clearcase users interested in VSTS.  If you are a ClearCase user, this is your chance to influence the development of the converter...

Branching and Merging in the Dec. CTP

January 24th, 2005
Back in the summer I wrote several posts on branching and merging in Team Foundation Source Control.  They are also relevant for the Dec. CTP if you are interested in this very important part of SCM...

How to delete a team project in the Dec. CTP

January 24th, 2005
Someone in the newsgroup asked how to delete a team project.  I asked James and he mentioned DeleteTeamProject.exe. From a Visual Studio command prompt, you can use the following command line app to delete a project.  To get the command prompt, go to Start -> All Programs -> Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Beta ->...

VSTS and MSDN Universal

January 24th, 2005
Back in June I posted information from the newgroup regarding VSTS Pricing.Here's an update from Ajay Sudan's newsgroup post (Jan. 24, 2005).MSDN Universal customers may migrate to their choice of Visual Studio Team Architect Edition, Visual Studio Team Developer Edition, or Visual Studio Team Test Edition at no additional cost for ...

Team Foundation Source Control client API example

January 22nd, 2005
This blog post is obsolete. Please see https://devblogs.microsoft.com/buckh/team-foundation-version-control-client-api-example-for-tfs-2010-and-newer/ Here's a really simple example that uses the source control API () in the Dec. CTP.  It shows how to create a workspace, pend changes, check in those changes, and hook up some important event...