Buck Hodges
Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)
Latest posts
Third party add-in: Test Manager Add-In for Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers
Many customers have expressed their disappointment with the fact that test lists (.vsmdi files) can only be created and managed in VSTS for Testers or VSTS Suite, leaving VSTS for Developers users in a bind. There is now an add-in from Ekobit that solves this problem! Check it out!Here's the announcement on Ognjen Bajic's blog. Test Manager Add-In Do you have lots of unit tests (or other automated tests, for that matter)? How do you organize them in lists? Using Visual Studio Team Suite? Nice, you’re covered. In Team Suite you can use the Test Manager window to easily build hierarchies and list...
Submit questions for the Channel 9 interviews of the NC TFS team
Brian Keller, technical evangelist for VSTS, is coming to the North Carolina office to interview Brian Harry and folks from each of the feature areas developed here (I'll be in the Team Build segment). Submit Your Questions for the Upcoming Channel 9 Interviews of the Team Foundation Server Team On Dec. 14 & 15 I will be filming more Visual Studio Team System Channel 9 interviews on-site with the Team Foundation Server team in Raleigh, North Carolina. I am pleased to announce that Brian Harry has graciously agreed to take some time on camera to talk about the roadmap for Team Foundati...
More on the Orcas features for Team Build
Brian Harry posted a TFS roadmap. I'd like to expand on the portion that describes the features specific to Team Build. Keep in mind that these features can change before Orcas ships, so there are no guarantees that it will match what's described below. Build There's a lot there.The first item refers to the feature in msbuild where it spawns multiple processes to build projects in parallel, for projects that don't depend on each other.Continuous integration is the flagship feature for Team Build in Orcas. There's a build definition dialog that lets you specify all of the build "metadata," such...
TeamPrise 2.0
Congratulations to the TeamPrise team for shipping version 2.0! Martin Woodward posts about it and includes screenshots. Teamprise Turns 2.0 Tuesday marked the beginning of my second year with Teamprise and today I'm very happy to report that we have just released Teamprise 2.0. To celebrate I thought I'd give you a quick run through of some of my favorite features. more...tags: tfs, team foundation, teamprise
Continuous Integration in Team Build for Orcas
Brian Harry has written a post about an SD Times article about TFS. Since he is the head of Team Foundation, his posts tend to have interesting tidbits in them, such as the following. It talks about the lack of continuous integration and the ability to schedule builds. It also talks about lack of a gui editor for build definitions. I think it's fair to say that TFS Build is the weakest of our "out of the box" feature experiences. It does a good job serving as an integration point - pulling together data from version control, work item tracking, testing, the build process and populating the warehouse. Howeve...
Building software against different versions of .NET with MSBuild in Orcas
Faisal Mohamood, a program manager on the MSBuild team, has written a pair of posts about the "multi-targeting" feature in the Orcas version of MSBuild. Multi-targeting allows you to build your code against the .NET 2.0, 3.0, or 3.5 frameworks, according to your requirements. This is great because it allows folks to have some projects use the newest framework and other projects remain on an older framework by simply specifying the tool set in the project files. MSBuild, Orcas, and Multi-targeting So if you were curious enough to dig into what the October 2006 Orcas CTP contained, you might have s...
All of the Sysinternals tools in one download
Microsoft TechNet put them all in one convenient download. Sysinternals Suite Published: November 1, 2006 Introduction The entire set of Sysinternals Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools. This file contains all the individual tools and help files. Download SysinternalsSuite (8 MB)tags: tools, sysinternals
Where does the console output for tests go when run within Team Build?
This question came up on the internal discussion alias. Tom Marsh, development lead on VSTS for Testers, responded saying, "the console output is saved with the unit test results. If you download the results and open them in the IDE, you will see the console output in the results view for the test that created it."tags: tfs, team foundation, team build, vsts, team system, mstest
Updated version of new TestToolsTask
I've updated the TestToolsTask that supports using test containers, in addition to the test metadata files supported by v1. Unfortunately, the task I posted originally didn't result in builds being marked as failed when the tests had errors. I missed that fact in my testing. The reason for the problem is that the v1 Team Build logger looks for the task name, TestToolsTask, and the power toy task was originally called TestToolsTaskEx. With this new release, the task has the same name as the original v1 task, so that builds will be marked as failed when the tests fail.If you d...