Buck Hodges

VS 2010 SP1 crashes when viewing build on a TFS 2008 server

March 23, 2011 Mar 23, 2011 03/23/11

Buck Hodges

Unfortunately, we introduced a regression into Visual Studio 2010 SP1 in the process of fixing a performance issue in the build details view that a number of customers had reported (viewing the log was really slow for larger builds). We made this change late in SP1. I apologize for the inconvenience. I want to make sure you know about that ...

Managing TFS 2010: How to clean up test attachment data

March 18, 2011 Mar 18, 2011 03/18/11

Buck Hodges

Test attachment data generated by the new testing features in VS 2010 can add a large amount of data to your TFS server.  In fact, we discovered on our own “dogfood” server that test data was taking up more space than the version control data.  You can read more about it in Grant’s post here.You can use the Test ...

Visual Studio setup projects (vdproj) will not ship with future versions of VS

March 17, 2011 Mar 17, 2011 03/17/11

Buck Hodges

[UPDATE 04/18/14] The Visual Studio team has released an extension to VS 2013 to address the feedback on this, which has been loud and clear for a long time now: Visual Studio Installer Projects Extension. [UPDATE 11/6/12] Fixed broken links. At the user group meeting last night, someone asked about the future of WiX.  There was some ...

Hidden gem in TFS 2010: How to rollback a changeset with tf rollback

March 16, 2011 Mar 16, 2011 03/16/11

Buck Hodges

[UPDATE 8/8/11]  The TFS 2010 power tools now provide rollback in the UI as described here. Tonight Justin and I spoke to the Minnesota Visual Studio User Group.  It was completely unscripted, and we had a great time answering questions and telling a few stories (can you name the original code names for version control, work item ...

TFS 2010 SP1: Unknown error (0x80005000) (type COMException) – Make sure IIS 6 compat mode is turned on

March 15, 2011 Mar 15, 2011 03/15/11

Buck Hodges

[Update 3/16/11]  There is a KB article with TFS 2010 SP1 installation troubleshooting should you hit problems: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2516423. Problem A customer ran into this issue, and I want to post it to help anyone else who hits it.  The symptom is that you install Service Pack 1 for Team Foundation Server 2010, and ...

The book to buy on team build: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build, Second Edition

February 13, 2011 Feb 13, 2011 02/13/11

Buck Hodges

If you are responsible for work with your team’s build system, you will definitely want to buy a copy of Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build (Second Edition).  Both of the authors now work for Microsoft.  William Bartholomew is part of the central engineering team and has been building the ...

Web projects and team build

February 12, 2011 Feb 12, 2011 02/12/11

Buck Hodges

Vishal Joshi, lead program manager for web platform tools, has a great blog covering using various project types with Team Foundation Build.  Here’s a selection of his posts on using team build, which I highly recommend if you are working with web projects. Technorati Tags: team foundation,build,web projects,team ...

Improvements to baseless merge in TFS 2010 SP1

February 6, 2011 Feb 6, 2011 02/6/11

Buck Hodges

Starting with TFS 2010 SP1, there are two improvements to how baseless merges work: base file version and handling deleted files. First is that if you specify a starting range for a baseless merge, we will now use that changeset as the base in the three-way content merge. That results in a vastly improved experience in merging file content ...

Can you downgrade from SQL Enterprise to SQL Standard?

January 31, 2011 Jan 31, 2011 01/31/11

Buck Hodges

Question: Can a TFS 2010 Team Project Collection (TPC) on SQL Server 2008 Enterprise be down converted to SQL Server Standard 2008 edition? Answer: This is covered in the 2010 Upgrade guide post. The script is: exec prc_EnablePrefixCompression @online = 0, @disable = 1 (answer provided by Ed Holloway...

Code metrics command line tool

January 29, 2011 Jan 29, 2011 01/29/11

Buck Hodges

[UPDATE 3/24/12]  You can find a real code metrics activity here as part of the Community TFS Build Extensions. Cameron Skinner has announced a new command line tool for generating code metrics.  We’ve long gotten requests to be able to generate code metrics from the build.  Prior to this tool, code ...