Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

Doug Neumann on Software Configuration Management with Burton

May 24, 2004 May 24, 2004 05/24/04
Buck Hodges
Doug's the program manager for Source Control in Visual Studio 2005 Team Server, and his talk will look at doing details of software configuration management with VSTS. Doug's and Brian's talks cover different ground and will really give you a feel for what we're doing. DEVC32 How-To: Managing Software Configurations with Visual ...

Visual Studio 2005 Team System (aka Burton)

May 24, 2004 May 24, 2004 05/24/04
Buck Hodges
The official web site for Visual Studio 2005 Team System is now live, including a Burton blog called AskBurton. I am a developer working on the Burton source control system (Team Foundation), which we code-named Hatteras. Over time I plan to add details about Hatteras and how it works. Here is a good description of Team Foundation ...

Converting a text file from one encoding to another

May 18, 2004 May 18, 2004 05/18/04
Buck Hodges
The .NET framework handles file encodings very nicely.  Not too long ago, I needed to convert files from one encoding to another for a library that didn't handle the encoding of the original file.  Since someone on an internal alias asked about doing this a couple of weeks ago, I thought it would be useful to post it here. The .NET ...

Bill Gates’ visit to the University of Illinois

May 15, 2004 May 15, 2004 05/15/04
Buck Hodges
I didn't realize that Microsoft hires more computer science graduates from U of I than any other school.  It's a great school with a lot of bright people (I don't miss the cold January days, though). Bill Gates, the chief software architect for Microsoft, chose Illinois for his first stop on a three-day, five campus tour to ...

Download the VC++ Toolkit

May 14, 2004 May 14, 2004 05/14/04
Buck Hodges
Three weeks ago the Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 was made available as a free download.  It's the full optimizing compiler.  That's pretty cool.  It doesn't include the IDE, though people have used it to replace the non-optimizing compiler in the VS Standard edition...