Buck Hodges

Director of Engineering, Azure

Director of Engineering, Azure DevOps

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Team Explorer 2012 keyboard shortcuts

June 6th, 2012
Team Explorer 2012 has the following keyboard shortcuts for the built-in pages.  We are adding some shortcuts within the pages for RTM.UPDATE 08/20/12:  The last seven shortcuts were added for RTM.Follow me at twitter.com/tfsbuckTechnorati Tags: team foundation server,tfs 2012...

After upgrading: Updating licensing and enabling async checkout for server workspaces

June 3rd, 2012
The other day I wrote a post with a summary of links for upgrading team project settings to turn on all of the new features, such as code review, task board, and more. There are a couple more things I want to point out that you’ll want to tweak after the upgrade. First is licensing for the feature set.  The default setting is ...

Use the wizard to upgrade team projects in TFS 2012

June 1st, 2012
As you’ve seen from Brian’s post and a bunch of others, Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012 RC are now available.  One of the consistent pain points in upgrading from one version of TFS to the next has been in upgrading the process for a team project.  With TFS 2012, we’ve taken our first steps toward ...

TFS 11: API for teams and understanding burn down charts

May 23rd, 2012
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 22nd, 2012
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 19th, 2012
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 12th, 2012
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 10th, 2012
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 5th, 2012
[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 5th, 2012
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...