Buck Hodges
Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)
Latest posts
Visual Studio 2010 Licensing Whitepaper is now available
I’ve posted before about TFS licensing, and the official whitepaper was finally released last week. The document covers Team Foundation Server as well as all of Visual Studio.Visual Studio 2010 Licensing WhitepaperTechnorati Tags: visual studio 2010,team foundation server 2010,vs,tfs
Fix for Message Size Issue in Outlook 2010 Beta
If you are using Outlook 2010 Beta, you probably need this fix because all of your emails are huge. It was killing me (and a bunch of other folks internally). It is fixed in the recent RC, but most people don’t have access (it’s not a public RC). The Office team has just posted a fix for this issue for folks using the Beta. Fix for Message Size Issue in Outlook 2010 Beta Recently, we posted information on the Outlook blog about a bug in the Microsoft Office 2010 Beta that increases the message size of some e-mails messages sent from the Microsoft Outlook 2010 Beta. The Office t...
TFS client API changes from Beta 2 to RC
While I don’t have a comprehensive list, I do want to point out these four changes in particular because these classes are fundamental to the API. If you have written code with the Beta 2 client API, here are the changes you will need to be aware of to use the RC client API. [UPDATE 2/12/10] Jim Lamb has posted updated TFS SDK docs: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Project/Download/FileDownload.aspx?ProjectName=TfsSdk&DownloadId=9107.Technorati Tags: team foundation,tfs 2010
Uninstall TFS Power Tools for 2010 Beta 2 before installing VS 2010 RC
Several folks have run into a problem after uninstalling VS 2010 Beta 2 and installing VS 2010 RC. When VS 2010 runs, you get an error message like the following. Team Foundation Error Could not load type ‘Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.TeamFoundationServerBase’ from assembly ‘Microsoft.TeamFoundationClient, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a’. The problem is that the TFS Power Tools for 2010 Beta 2 are installed. Between Beta 2 and RC we made changes to the 2010 client API, so the Beta 2 power tools release will not work. We d...
Deep dive on Windows Workflow 4.0 activities
Patrick Carnahan is a developer on TFS Build, and he’s written a series of detailed posts on how to write custom activities in Windows Workflow 4.0 (WF), which is now used to orchestrate the build process for TFS Build in 2010. It’s a deep dive on WF activities. Jim Lamb’s post on how to integrate custom workflow activities into TFS Build is a great companion to this series. Introduction to Windows Workflow 4.0 In order to help everyone get up to speed with build customization, I wanted to take a few posts to share our collective knowledge on the Workflow framework in .NET 4.0...
Does your display not turn off automatically? You may need an update for your wireless mouse.
On my shiny new Windows Server 2008 R2 installation, my monitors won’t go into low power mode even though they should turn off after 10 minutes of inactivity based on my display settings in Windows. Chris Rathjen suggested to me that it could be the wireless mouse (Microsoft Natural Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 in my case – what a mouthful) keeping it awake. I unplugged it from the USB port, and sure enough, my monitors went into low power mode.So, I thought I’d try installing the current IntelliPoint drivers for Windows 7 64-bit to see if that fixed the problem. It did indeed do ...
Free of XP and Vista! All Win7, all the time.
I took a couple of weeks off over the holidays (a ton of people did – there weren’t many folks around last week), and I finally took the time to migrate our two desktops at home from XP to Win7. I’ve been running Win7 for many months on my work laptop, my personal laptop, and most recently a Dell Mini 9 (okay, I consider four months ago recently – heck, my blogging frequency is terrible now). My regular laptop at home is an old Thinkpad T40 that’s about five years old at this point. It has 1.5 GB of RAM (not that you need that much for 7 – 1 GB works fine for surfi...
Building .NET 4.0 Apps with Team Foundation Build 2008
William Bartholomew, former VSTS MVP and author of the book Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build, recently joined Microsoft. He's written a great post on the handful of steps you need to follow if you want to build .NET 4.0 applications with TFS 2008: Building .NET 4.0 Applications Using Team Build 2008. Check it out!Technorati Tags: team foundation server,tfs,tfs 2008,team build,msbuild,.net 4.0
What features are in TFS Basic 2010?
Earlier, I wrote a post explaining where to find TFS Basic. Someone asked a set of questions about TFS Basic, and I thought I’d post the answers here. What features are in TFS Basic 2010? Brian’s post describes a bit of the feature differences and also shows the installation process. It’s really much easier to talk about features not in Basic, as Basic is just TFS configured using a set of defaults to make the installation experience very simple. Basic does not configure SharePoint or SQL Reporting Services (RS), and because of the lack of RS there’s no warehouse. That’s it. ...