Buck Hodges
Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)
Latest posts
Using Zapier to email work items to my backlog in VSTS
I use the board view of the backlog in my VS Team Services personal account to keep track of my work. I’ve wanted to be able to email a work item to my ...
Gated checkin for Git: Using Branch Policies to run a build in VSTS and TFS
Let’s start with what gated checkin is, which is a feature we shipped as part of TFS 2010. Gated checkin enforces that a change in a branch builds and ...
Git Credential Manager is now installed by Git for Windows
Beginning with version 2.7.3, Git for Windows includes the Git Credential Manager (GCM) that makes authenticating with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) a ...
Tenth anniversary of Team Foundation Server
Today marks the tenth anniversary of shipping TFS 2005, which was our first version. We shipped nearly six months late – VS 2005 shipped in November 2005. The...
Caching: What could go wrong?
There’s an old saying about regular expressions that I’ve always liked. I think it applies equally to caching. Here’s my version. Some people, when ...
NuGet packages for TFS and Visual Studio Online .NET client object model
For the past couple of releases we’ve released the Team Foundation Server/Visual Studio Online client object model as a downloadable installer (aka MSI). ...
Fix: Windows 10 upgrade couldn’t update the system reserved partition
Disclaimer: This is what worked for me, and it’s not guidance from Microsoft. It may not work for you. Since this involves resizing partitions, it could wipe ...
How we deploy Visual Studio Online using Release Management
**UPDATE April 25, 2017** This blog post describes our old deployment process. We now use VS Team Services Release Management to deploy VSTS. We use VS ...
Add, edit, rename, and delete files in the web browser with Visual Studio Online and TFS 2015
Back in the December 17th update, we added the ability to make changes to files in the web UI, and it works for both TFVC and Git. Edit is easy to find, since ...