Buck Hodges
Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)
Latest posts
Using VS 2012 and getting “TF206018: The items could not be…” when creating a project using Git
If you go to Team Foundation Service, create a new account, and then create a new team project that uses Git, you may receive the following error message when either you try to connect VS 2012 or use the “Open new instance of Visual Studio” from your project’s web page and try to add a new Visual Studio project to source control. TF206018: The items could not be added to source control because either no team projects have been set up, or because you do not have permission to access any of the team projects in the current collection. If you run into this situation, it is because Visual Stud...
How to see activity and job history in TFS 2012
[Update 9/15/14] Here you can find permissions for these pages. [Update 4/24/15] Added information about filtering job history by result. With TFS 2012, we introduced a new feature in the web UI that makes it easy to look at the activity and job history on your TFS 2012 server (this feature was first introduced in 2012 RTM). Before the 2012 release, you would have had to look at things like tbl_Command directly in the database to get this information. To see this feature, just go to http://<yourserver>/tfs/_oi if you have admin privileges. Grant Holliday has written a great blog post, TFS2012: New tools...
Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 2 supports 2010 Build Agents and Controllers
[UPDATE 9/26/13] TFS 2013 will include support for both TFS 2010 build agents and controllers and also TFS 2012 build agents and controllers. One of the changes we made in TFS 2012 for Update 2 was to support TFS 2010 build agents and controllers. This provides several major benefits. The first is the obvious one of not having to upgrade your build agents and controllers when you upgrade your server to 2012. The second is that you don’t have to alter your custom build WF activities to be built with 2012. The third is that you will still be able to use Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 to run build agents ...
OData Service for TFS v2
Brian Keller has released a beta of the second version of his OData service. We are also working to bring it to TF Service, so stay tuned. Check out the beta and give him feedback! OData Service for Team Foundation Server v2 Today we are releasing the beta of the OData Service for Team Foundation Server v2 along with a sample Windows Store application The purpose of this service is to help developers work with data from Team Foundation Server on multiple device types (such as smartphones and tablets) and operating systems. OData provides a great solution for this goal, and has been embraced by numerous d...
New build of git-tf required for use with Team Foundation Service
Yesterday’s update of Team Foundation Service requires a new build of git-tf, which is now available for download. Using a version of git-tf prior to the update will result in repeated prompts for your password but will never succeed in authenticating.Follow me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/tfsbuck
How to connect to TF Service without a prompt for LiveID credentials
Normally when you connect to the Team Foundation Service you are presented with a web page to log in with your Microsoft Account (aka LiveID). When you log in you can choose to have it remember you and you won’t have to enter your Microsoft Account credentials again (unless you don’t log in again for a long time, and then you’ll be prompted again). That’s great for humans, but what about an application or another web service that wants to connect? For that the code will need to use “alternate credentials," which you must enable on your account. This is the same setting used to enable basic authentication fo...
Bing desktop–set your background to the Bing image of the day
Okay, so this has nothing to do with ALM, but I really like the Bing desktop app for one feature: It sets the desktop background to the Bing image of the day. I used to run this app on Win7 and had missed it since moving to Win8 (I love Win8 and have it running on all my machines). Before the recent update, installing it on Win8 would result in a message telling you to upgrade to Win7. That’s a good reminder to be careful about what you do with version checks in your code. After downloading it, I drag it to the top of the screen and change the option to have it only show when I click on it (first option under se...
Extending Team Explorer in Visual Studio 2012
Today we posted information on how to extend the Team Explorer window in Visual Studio 2012. Check it out! Extending Team Explorer in Visual Studio 2012 Team Explorer in Visual Studio 2012 offers multiple options for extending the user experience. This sample demonstrates several of the extensibility points by adding a new Team Explorer page as well as by placing a new section onto the Pending Changes page. Introduction Team Explorer in Visual Studio 2012 offers multiple options for extending the user experience. This sample demonstrates several of the extensibility points by: more&hellip...
TFS 2012 Update 1: Permissions lost on attaching a collection
I just posted on the ALM blog about this issue.