Buck Hodges

VSS converter for TFS beta 3

September 27, 2005 Sep 27, 2005 09/27/05

Buck Hodges

Akash Maheshwari, PM for the source control converters for TFS, has posted a set of articles on using the VSS converter with TFS beta 3.  You'll want to check that out if you are converting from VSS, because that's the most up-to-date source of information...

Why are there two Source Control entries on the File menu?

September 26, 2005 Sep 26, 2005 09/26/05

Buck Hodges

If you add the Code Analysis check-in policy to your Team Project, you'll see two entries for Source Control on the File menu in VS, as shown below.(image) All of the standard menu items for TFS source control are under the second Source Control entry.  The issue is cosmetic and is related to a change we made in the TFS source ...

The 10,000th Changeset

September 26, 2005 Sep 26, 2005 09/26/05

Buck Hodges

Back on July 13, I wrote about the dates of changeset "milestones" in our dogfood system.  Today we hit changeset 10,000.  The time between 9000 and 10000 was longer than usual because of check-in restrictions in place leading up to beta 3 (bug fixes had to be individually reviewed and approved in ask mode).Here's the full list...

Active Directory is no longer required with Team Foundation Beta 3

September 22, 2005 Sep 22, 2005 09/22/05

Buck Hodges

There have been a lot of requests from folks wanting to use TFS without Active Directory.  Since several questions and answers in comments on Jeff Beehler's blog dealt with this, I thought it's worth mentioning in a post that TFS beta 3 supports workgroup installations, and Active Directory is not required in that configuration.[...

Team Foundation Beta 3 has been released!

September 21, 2005 Sep 21, 2005 09/21/05

Buck Hodges

Today we signed off on Team Foundation Beta 3!  If you used beta 2, beta 3 is a vast improvement.  Beta 3 should hopefully show up on MSDN in about two days.  You may remember that beta 3 has the go-live license and will be supported for migration to the final release version 1, which means this is the last time you have to ...

Working remotely with TFS Version Control

September 21, 2005 Sep 21, 2005 09/21/05

Buck Hodges

Here in North Carolina, we have a 10Mb connection to the outside world (it was a 3Mb connection until a few months ago), so we know what it's like to use TFS remotely.  In addition to minimizing the number of requests from the client to the server, TFS Version Control contains several features that aid in working in a situation where the ...

Outlook macro to create work item and changeset hyperlinks

September 20, 2005 Sep 20, 2005 09/20/05

Buck Hodges

[NOTE: If this post looks truncated, scroll down or make the browser window wider.  The style sheet causes this.] Ed Hintz, a dev lead on the TFS Version Control team, sends a lot of email with TFS work item numbers.  Work items can be viewed (not edited) in a web browser using an URL constructed from the server name and ...

Continuous Integration Demo Code from Doug Neumann’s TLN301 PDC Talk

September 19, 2005 Sep 19, 2005 09/19/05

Buck Hodges

Doug Neumann's TLN301 presentation, VSTS: Behind the Scenes of Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server (slides), featured a demonstration of how to use the server's check-in event notification to kick off a build for a continuous integration build system using Team Build.  A number of people asked for it, so we've decided to post ...

Doug Neumann on Channel 9

September 12, 2005 Sep 12, 2005 09/12/05

Buck Hodges

Doug Neumann, one of our esteemed Program Managers, is in a short video on Channel 9 talking about our office, version control, the proxy, etc.  He and Mario, our other version control PM, are at PDC this week.Doug Neumann - Source Code control guy on VSTS team...

How wide is a string when displayed in the console window?

September 11, 2005 Sep 11, 2005 09/11/05

Buck Hodges

Not too long ago, I had to fix the command line output for tf.exe, the Team Foundation Version Control command line app, so that output would be formatted properly for console windows (cmd.exe) using double-byte code pages.The code originally computed the output display width as the length of the string.  However, that's not correct ...