Buck Hodges
Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)
Latest posts
TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit pre-release published on CodePlex
Matt Mitrik, the program manager for the TFS migration tools, has announced the availability of the first pre-release version of the Team Foundation Server migration and synchronization toolkit. If you are looking into how to migrate away from a different bug tracking or version control system, this is where you'll want to start. Be sure to let Matt and company know what you need in order to be successful! Migration and Synchronization Toolkit Prerelease Published on CodePlex A prerelease of the Migration and Synchronization Toolkit has been released on CodePlex! If you are interested in seeing the ...
How quaint: 1,000,000 files and 10,000 changesets
I wrote posts when we hit 1,000,000 files (Nov. 18, 2005) and 10,000 changesets (Sept. 26, 2005) on the DevDiv server. When you look at the April 2007 statistics (April 18, 2007) for that server, we're at 77,658,652 files and 204,556 changesets. Clearly, that's a huge change in roughly 18 months. The file count climbs dramatically every time we add a new branch. A full branch has about 3 million files. Normally, we add a partial branch (1 - 2 million files). So nearly all of the growth in files comes from creating new branches. The increase in the number of changesets is largely du...
VSTS Testing: Using Fiddler to record VSTS web tests
Sean Lumley, a developer on the VSTS web test team, has written a series of posts on using a new version of Fiddler to record web tests. Sean worked with Eric Lawrence, who developed Fiddler, to incorporate new features that make this process much easier than in the past. If you do any web testing, you'll want to check this out. Here's a high-level description from Ed Glas, who leads the VSTS web test team. By the way, check out Ed's list of web and load test improvements for Orcas to see what's coming in the next release. We have released to web a new version of fiddler with a grea...
Configuring Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
[UPDATE 7/26/07] Final guidance is now available. Brian Keller has posted information on how to get WSS 3.0 to work with TFS 2005, which has been a very popular request. This approach has been designed such that the server will still be serviceable after the change (i.e., you'll still be able to apply patches and upgrade to Orcas). Configuring Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Now that Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is available we have received several inquiries from people wanting to use WSS 3.0 with Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server. ...
TFS tools on CodePlex (April ’07)
Sébastien Monteil, C# MVP, sent me email about a tool on CodePlex called Fissum, which is a tray app that shows your work items. That reminded me that back in September I wrote a post listing the tools for Team Foundation Server on CodePlex. So I thought this would be a good time to post a new list. It's great to see that the list has gotten quite a bit longer! It's in popularity order, according to the search that I did on CodePlex. Microsoft Team Foundation Server Branching Guidance - Microsoft Team Foundation Server Branching Guidance Team Foundation Serve...
VSTS International Survey
Aldo Donetti, lead PM on the VSTS globalization team, sent out email today about the newly released VSTS International Surveys. These complement the previously released English language survey. There are both language-specific and some country-specific surveys. If you use VSTS in one of the languages and/or countries below, it would be helpful to us for you to take the survey and let us know your opinion. Japanese = http://c2.microsoft.fr/surveyIntlVSTS/?elng=1041 Simplified Chinese = http://c2.microsoft.fr/surveyIntlVSTS/?elng=2052 Traditional Chinese = http://c2.microsoft.fr/surveyIntlVSTS...
Configuring Team Foundation Server to use fully-qualified domain names
This week the following question came up. I've seen this come up before, and there are probably forum threads on it, but I figured I'd post it here. Bill Essary provided the answer to the question. As always, keep notes on what you do so that you can undo it if necessary. Question Is there a way to configure TFS to use fully-qualified domain names (FQDN, e.g., tfsserver.mycompany.com) for TFS, WSS, and Reporting Services? Answer 1) Run "tfsadminutil activateat <FullyQualifiedDomainName>" 2) Update the following registry key with the FQDN: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Micr...
Better integrating other build tools into your build
Aaron Hallberg wrote a great post today showing how to use a custom task to better integrate other build tools, such as devenv (aka Visual Studio), as part of your build in Team Build. Building Non-MSBuild Projects With Team Build Building non-MSBuild projects in Team Build has never been a particularly nice experience... You can make it work, typically by invoking DevEnv or some other tool using an Exec task, but you don't get any output in your build report or build log, etc. Additionally, it was recently pointed out to me (by D. Omar Villareal from Notion Solutions) that when a build type is se...
Version Control Server blog: Orcas destroy feature, merging with labels
The Version Control Server blog has shown some signs of life. Bill Tutt has written a couple of posts. The first one is about the Orcas version control feature that lots of customers have requested: destroy. The destroy command, which is only available from the tf.exe command line, will permanently remove the specified files and folders from your database (delete just hides them really). Destroy: A new feature for Orcas Destroy gives you the ability to permanently delete version control files/folders from TFS. It can also be used to destroy the file contents while preserving the change s...