Buck Hodges
Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)
Latest posts
Tortoise SVN for TFS: Making the real thing work and a clone
Periodically, the topic of having a Tortoise SVN-like client for TFS comes up. The CodePlex team announced yesterday that they are writing a free "bridge" to make the real Tortoise SVN work with TFS. It's an interesting approach. CodePlex to support TortoiseSVN The number one new feature request from users is for CodePlex to support Subversion. Specifically what users are telling us they want is the features and experience they get when using TortoiseSVN as a source control client. It is important to us on the CodePlex team to provide our users the features they want and need to have the...
SDC MSBuild tasks library is now on CodePlex (moved from GotDotNet)
Last August, I posted a set of links to sites with MSBuild tasks for all sorts of things you might need to run your build. The SDC Tasks Library, which was part of Microsoft Services (UK) Enterprise Solutions Build Framework (SBF) on the GotDotNet, is now on CodePlex. SDC Tasks Library Project DescriptionThis is the latest version of the SDC Tasks for .NET 2.0. The SDC Tasks are a collection of MSBuild tasks designed to make your life easier. You can use these tasks in your own MSBuild projects. You can use them stand alone and, if all else fails, you can use them as sample code. There are ov...
Viewing test results in a web browser
Rido posted a cool way to see your test results from a build without having to copy the information locally and view it in VS. Pretty cool! TestResults Reports in TFS Builds If you use TFSBuilds with VS UnitTests, you know how to inspect the TestResults: you must download the whole directory to your local machine, and sometimes this folder could be pretty huge. So, if you want to check the error details of your tests, you can use my tool trx2html to convert the *.trx files to html, so you can see the reports with any browser. Here are the instructions in 3 simple steps: 1) copy the RidoTasks.dl...
Chicago VSTS Users Group
For those of you in the Chicago area that use Team System, Clark Sell will be presenting at the Chicago VSTS Users Group meeting. It should be a great time to learn more about VSTS! Chicago VSTS Users Group, Round 2 Since I am speaking this time, I can't help but self promote can I? Right now I am in the middle of sketching out content and I would love nothing more than to hear from you. While I have a few tricks up the ole sleeve please ping me and share what's on your mind. Now for the official blurb!! Join us for ROUND 2 of the Chicago Visual Studio Team System User group! Microsoft Visual Studio...
Update to “How to run tests in a build without test metadata files and test lists (.vsmdi files)”: Test Categories
Pierre Greborio, a developer over in MSTV, has contributed a great new feature to the power tool task that allows you to run tests without .vsmdi files: test categories. Those of you who have used NUnit are probably familiar with the Category attribute. Test categories allow you to execute specific groups of unit tests. To tag a unit test method as belonging to a category, just add the Category attribute. Unlike the test container feature, the test category feature will not be in Orcas (if you'd like to see it in a future release, be sure to let these folks know). The new version...
Guidance for Structuring Team Projects in TFS 2005
Brian Keller points out that Doug Neumann's Guidance for Structuring Team Projects is now available on the Microsoft Team Foundation Server Branching Guidance CodePlex project. Guidance for Structuring Team Projects - Doug Neumann - Microsoft Corporation Introduction One of the most important considerations when looking to deploy Team Foundation Server within your organization is how you will employ the “Team Project” concept. It can be very tempting to jump in and immediately start creating Team Projects to satisfy every whim of the users in your organization. However, restructuring existing team ...
Using an ASP.NET TFS data source
Kannan Sundararajan has written a couple of posts on how to use TFS as an ASP.NET data source. If you are interested in displaying TFS data in ASP.NET-driven web pages, you'll want to check it out. First he shows you how to build the data source and gives you the code that you need to build the dll. TFS Data Source ASP.NET Control While learning ASP.NET for developing the RTE for MSDN Forums I had to interact with multiple teams and provide them with status reports on the work items. Some of them were not using TFS yet for that code base. So I wanted a way to easily write a TFS report, send the url to al...
Orcas Beta 1 has shipped – summary of Team Build beta 1 features and links
As you probably already know, Orcas Beta 1 has shipped. Internally, the product team is focused on finding and fixing bugs for beta 2 (and has been for nearly a month now). The release includes a Virtual PC image with all of Visual Studio Team System plus Team Foundation Server, which you can download now. There's also an image that has only VSTS on it, but that's not nearly so interesting, right? ;-) Be sure to read all of the instructions on the download page. The release is in the form of a base image, which was also used for the March CTP, and a differencing disk image with the Orcas...
Visual Studio Team System chat – April 27, 2007 (this Friday)
Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what's new in the in the Visual Studio code name “Orcas” Beta 1 releases for Team Suite and Team Foundation Server. Join the chat on Friday, April 27th, 2007 from 10:00am - 11:00am Pacific Time. Add to Calendar Additional Time Zones [UPDATE 4/26/2007] There's now a second chat on Friday. Join the chat on Friday, April 27th, 2007 from 4:00pm - 5:00pm Pacific Time. ...