Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

VSTS pricing announced

March 21, 2005 Mar 21, 2005 03/21/05
Buck Hodges
VSTS pricing is always a popular topic (see posts in January and June).  Finally the speculation is over, and the pricing was announced publicly today.Microsoft Details Pricing and Licensing for Visual Studio 2005 and Simplifies Microsoft Developer Network Subscriptionshttp://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/mar05/03-21VS2005PR...

Team Foundation Dogfood

March 4, 2005 Mar 4, 2005 03/4/05
Buck Hodges
We're rapidly approaching the time for Whidbey Beta 2.  It is the first beta for Team System as a whole.  As a part of that, we'll be using it as our dogfood system.  I'm really looking forward to that, as each new dogfood "release" allows us to make more extensive use of features in the system.  We also get features ...

Network programming links

February 15, 2005 Feb 15, 2005 02/15/05
Buck Hodges
Adarsh Khare, who is a tester for the .NET networking classes, has useful blog.  Recent posts include the new NetworkInformation namespace that includes things like network availability events and a reference to an MSDN article on running ASMX without IIS...

Using branching in source control to meet Sarbanes-Oxley requirements

February 9, 2005 Feb 9, 2005 02/9/05
Buck Hodges
Someone posted this question recently in the newsgroups. I have a question concerning promotion processes using Source Control. Due to requirements from Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), we will need to have tight controls on source code that is being checked into UAT and Production such that it will pass an audit showing that is being tightly controlled ...