Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

The “Filter by solution” button

You are probably familiar with the Pending Changes window if you've been using Visual Studio with Team Foundation (View -> Other Windows -> Pending Changes).  Have you ever wanted to have the Pending Changes window show only the pending changes for files in the currently open solution and not all of the other changes in your ...

Warehouse troubleshooting guide

Bryan MacFarlane posted a troubleshooting guide for warehouse problems in the MSDN Team Foundation Forum.  If you are having problems with your warehouse or reports, it's a good resource to try to figure out what's going wrong...

Source Control Explorer now shows more information about the state of items

One of the problems that users encounter when using Source Control Explorer is knowing what state the file or folder is in, particularly if it is shown in gray rather than black text.  In beta 3 refresh and ealier, gray text meant that the file or folder was unmapped, cloaked, deleted, or not downloaded.  There was no way to ...

Using VS to get the URI for a Team Project

Someone asked a question today about getting the URI for a Team Project.  James Manning's Team Project code sample showed how to do it using the API.  However, that was overkill in this case.  Bill Essary pointed out that you can select the Team Project in Team Explorer, right-click on it, and choose Properties (rather than ...

C# 3.0 features

I just read Ian Griffiths' post on C# 3.0 and LINQ - Expression Trees (linked from Jomo Fisher's C# 3.0 post, which was linked in John Rivard's Why Visual Studio targets only one version of the .NET Framework, which was in a link from Soma's Multi-targeting of .NET FX in Visual Studio post, which I received in an email notification). ...

How to diff Word documents

John Lawrence responded to someone's question about how to diff MS Word documents, and I thought the answer would help a few more folks. Team Foundation enables you to specify different diff and merge tools for different file types. We don’t have a built in compare tool for .doc files but I did a quick search and found quite a few ...

Team Foundation Beta 3 Virtual PC is available

The last time I wrote about the VPC for beta 3, it didn't make up to MSDN like it was supposed to.  Well, a beta 3 VPC is available now, and a beta 3 refresh VPC will be available as soon as it makes its way through the infrastructure (yeah, I know, trust me at your own risk).The beta 3 VPC is under Visual Studio 2005 -> Visual Studio ...

1,000,000 files in the dogfood system

Jeff Beehler just checked in another 100,000 files, pushing us over 1,000,000 files.  We now have 1,042,659 files in the dogfood system.  Brian Harry sent out a dogfood statistics update in email today, prior to Jeff's check-in.  Watch for the latest stats on John Lawrence's blog...

Power Toy: tfpt.exe

[UPDATE 8/9/2007]  I fixed the broken link to the power tools page. [UPDATE 9/8/2006]  TFPT is now available in its own small download: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=5422499!  You no longer need to download the VS SDK.  You can find more information about the September '06 release here.Back at the...