Buck Hodges

Director of Engineering, Azure

Director of Engineering, Azure DevOps

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New tool to upgrade from Visual SourceSafe to Team Foundation Server or Service

November 9th, 2012
Today we have released an upgrade tool for users of VSS to upgrade to either on-premises TFS or the Team Foundation Service in the cloud! It provides a wizard-based UI for upgrading a VSS repository to TFS 2010, 2012, or the service. Compared to the old VSS conversion experience, there are quite a few improvements. With ...

Windows Phone SDK now available in Build for Team Foundation Service

November 9th, 2012
Brian mentioned this in a blog post last week, but I think it may have gotten lost in everything else that was going on. The Team Foundation Service’s build feature (i.e., build in the cloud) has the Windows Phone SDK installed on it now so that you can build you Windows Phone 8 (and 7) apps. The blocker here had been that the SDK could ...

Video from 2012 Build Conference: Evolution of TFS into a Service

November 5th, 2012
This year at //build/ conference I gave a presentation on the evolution of Team Foundation Server from a box product to a service that has a box product. It’s been a fun journey, and I enjoyed telling the story of what our team has accomplished over the last couple of years. I start with the beginning of the 2012 cycle and go over the ...

DevDiv is now running on TFS 2012 Update 1 final CTP

October 29th, 2012
Back in June, I wrote about the upgrade of the main Developer Division server to TFS 2012 RC. That post described both the scale of that server as well as the issues that we found in the process of upgrading it and the for the first week of running it (we found most all of the issues in the first week). Last month we upgraded that server to ...

Upgrading TFS build from 2010 to 2012 – issues and workarounds

October 24th, 2012
Jason Prickett has written a blog post summarizing issues and workarounds for problems encountered with TFS build when upgrading from TFS 2010 to TFS 2012. Upgrading your build definitions from TFS2010 to TFS2012 Follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/tfsbuck...

Internal error loading the Changeset Comments checkin policy

October 19th, 2012
[Update 11/26/12] You can get the fix by installing Update 1 (or newer) for Visual Studio 2012: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads. Some customers, after starting to use Visual Studio 2012 with their existing TFS deployment, have been receiving check-in policy errors having to do with the Changeset Comments policy. The errors...

Standalone installer for the TFS client object model

July 14th, 2012
[UPDATE 12/13/12] The TFS 2012 Object Model Installer is now available for download. This past week we released an installer for the Team Foundation Server 2010 SP1 client object model.  Up to this point the only way to get it was to install Team Explorer.  For folks writing tools that access TFS, this was a pain, as having to ...

Developer Division is running on TFS 2012 RC!

June 8th, 2012
This past weekend we upgraded the TFS server used by the Developer Division and other teams who deliver Visual Studio 2012.  It is now running TFS 2012 RC! Back in the beginning, the DevDiv server was our dogfood server.  Then as all of the folks shipping products in Visual Studio, there were too many critical deadlines to be able ...

How to customize the build summary page in TFS 2012 without a plug-in

June 7th, 2012
Jason Prickett has been writing some great posts about the new features in Build for TFS 2012.  One of my favorites is the ability for you to add sections to the build summary page without having to write any plug-ins.  You just use the WriteCustomSummaryInformation activity in your workflow or make the equivalent OM calls from a ...

Visual Studio 2012 features enabled by using a TFS 2012 server

June 6th, 2012
While many of the features in Visual Studio 2012 are available to users using TFS 2008 or 2010, there are some features that are only available when using a TFS 2012 server.  Also, the web experience in TFS 2012 has been rebuilt entirely from the ground up, and the result is a fast, fluid experience that also includes new experiences ...