Buck Hodges
Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)
Latest posts
Upgrading TFS build from 2010 to 2012 – issues and workarounds
Jason Prickett has written a blog post summarizing issues and workarounds for problems encountered with TFS build when upgrading from TFS 2010 to TFS 2012. Upgrading your build definitions from TFS2010 to TFS2012 Follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/tfsbuck
Internal error loading the Changeset Comments checkin policy
[Update 11/26/12] You can get the fix by installing Update 1 (or newer) for Visual Studio 2012: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads. Some customers, after starting to use Visual Studio 2012 with their existing TFS deployment, have been receiving check-in policy errors having to do with the Changeset Comments policy. The errors look like: Internal error in Changeset Comments Policy. Error loading the Changeset Comments Policy policy (The policy assembly 'Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerTools.CheckinPolicies.ChangesetComments, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' is n...
Standalone installer for the TFS client object model
[UPDATE 12/13/12] The TFS 2012 Object Model Installer is now available for download. This past week we released an installer for the Team Foundation Server 2010 SP1 client object model. Up to this point the only way to get it was to install Team Explorer. For folks writing tools that access TFS, this was a pain, as having to install TE was overkill when all that was needed was a small set of DLLs. Lots of folks have asked for this, and it’s finally available. We’ll be shipping a TFS 2012 client object model installer in the RTM timeframe as well. Team Foundation Server 2010...
Developer Division is running on TFS 2012 RC!
This past weekend we upgraded the TFS server used by the Developer Division and other teams who deliver Visual Studio 2012. It is now running TFS 2012 RC! Back in the beginning, the DevDiv server was our dogfood server. Then as all of the folks shipping products in Visual Studio, there were too many critical deadlines to be able to put early, sometimes raw, builds on the server. So we dogfood TFS on a server called pioneer, as described here. Pioneer is used mostly by the teams in ALM (TFS, Test & Lab Management, and Ultimate), and we’ve been running TFS 2012 on it since Februar...
How to customize the build summary page in TFS 2012 without a plug-in
Jason Prickett has been writing some great posts about the new features in Build for TFS 2012. One of my favorites is the ability for you to add sections to the build summary page without having to write any plug-ins. You just use the WriteCustomSummaryInformation activity in your workflow or make the equivalent OM calls from a workflow activity. The result is that you can display results, hyperlinks, and more on the build summary page. TFS11 RC – Simple Build Summary Customization So, I did a few posts when TFS 2010 released on how developers could customize the Visual Studio Build Detai...
Visual Studio 2012 features enabled by using a TFS 2012 server
While many of the features in Visual Studio 2012 are available to users using TFS 2008 or 2010, there are some features that are only available when using a TFS 2012 server. Also, the web experience in TFS 2012 has been rebuilt entirely from the ground up, and the result is a fast, fluid experience that also includes new experiences tailored to Scrum. Once you’ve upgraded your server to TFS 2012, installed your first TFS server, or are using the Team Foundation Service Preview, here are some of the features you are now able to use. The goal here isn’t an exhaustive list but to get you started. Versi...
Team Explorer 2012 keyboard shortcuts
Team Explorer 2012 has the following keyboard shortcuts for the built-in pages. We are adding some shortcuts within the pages for RTM.UPDATE 08/20/12: The last seven shortcuts were added for RTM.Follow me at twitter.com/tfsbuckTechnorati Tags: team foundation server,tfs 2012
After upgrading: Updating licensing and enabling async checkout for server workspaces
The other day I wrote a post with a summary of links for upgrading team project settings to turn on all of the new features, such as code review, task board, and more. There are a couple more things I want to point out that you’ll want to tweak after the upgrade. First is licensing for the feature set. The default setting is Standard. You can choose to set the default to Full if all of your users are licensed for Premium, Ultimate, or Test Professional 2012 (see the editions page). If not, you can add the people or groups who are licensed for full. Only users with Full access will ge...
Use the wizard to upgrade team projects in TFS 2012
As you’ve seen from Brian’s post and a bunch of others, Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012 RC are now available. One of the consistent pain points in upgrading from one version of TFS to the next has been in upgrading the process for a team project. With TFS 2012, we’ve taken our first steps toward making it dramatically better. We now provide a wizard that is able to upgrade a team project’s process quickly and easily if you have made no customizations or only a limited set of customizations. There are a number of resources available to help you through ...