Buck Hodges

Dogfood statistics update

July 18, 2005 Jul 18, 2005 07/18/05

Buck Hodges

Here's an update on what's changed since June 1 (John's last update was for May).Users Work items Version control Past 7 days...

Alert settings

July 17, 2005 Jul 17, 2005 07/17/05

Buck Hodges

Occasionally, the question about how to configure, after installation, the alert email SMTP server and from address setting have come up in the Team Foundation forum.  Alerts are emails that are sent when a check-in occurs in the Team Project you specify, or a work item assigned to you changes.  Users can sign up for alerts by ...

Changeset milestones in dogfood

July 13, 2005 Jul 13, 2005 07/13/05

Buck Hodges

John Lawrence has posted dogfood usage stats in the past.  I took a look at the changeset "milestones" today.  The rate of changesets being created has certainly increased as more users have been added to the system.To get the latest changeset, you can run h changeset /latest or h changeset /latest /i if you don't want the ...

Info on the upcoming July CTP

July 11, 2005 Jul 11, 2005 07/11/05

Buck Hodges

We're still ironing out a few more wrinkles in preparation for the dogfood upgrade, but I wanted to go let folks know that it's going to require two server machines to install.  With beta 2 we had a setup that would allow you to install it all on a single machine, which was great for getting a system set up for evaluation.  ...

TFS Source Control administration web service

June 29, 2005 Jun 29, 2005 06/29/05

Buck Hodges

Have you ever wondered how many files are in your server?  Or workspaces?  Have you wanted to stop a request that was being processed?  Using the administration web service and matching web page for TFS Source Control, you can do exactly that.For a beta 2 server, bring up http://localhost:8080/scc/application/admin.asmx&...

Please send error reports when prompted

June 29, 2005 Jun 29, 2005 06/29/05

Buck Hodges

A couple of months ago, Jeff Lucovsky wrote about filing watson reports for Team Foundation.  When you log in as an administrator on the application tier for TFS, you may be greeted with a dialog asking if you would like to report errors to Microsoft.  Likewise, if Visual Studio crashes, you may be asked to report the error to ...

Jeff Beehler’s blogging

June 28, 2005 Jun 28, 2005 06/28/05

Buck Hodges

Tonight I stumbled across Jeff Beehler's new blog.  So far he's written about our effort to upgrade our dogfood system to new code (we've been using a system based on the beta 2 release), which we'll release as a mid-July CTP...

Using baseless merge with converted VSS shared folders

June 18, 2005 Jun 18, 2005 06/18/05

Buck Hodges

In this forum thread, http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=18817, a question was asked about using baseless merge with converted VSS shared folders.[UPDATE Aug. 22, 2006]  The GUI will not show the relatives of baseless merges, only explicit branch relationships.[UPDATE Feb. 6, 2006]  I'm happy to say that baseless ...

Don’t use the June CTP of SQL 2005 with Team Foundation

June 16, 2005 Jun 16, 2005 06/16/05

Buck Hodges

It's a question that's come up a lot lately.  The June CTP of SQL 2005 will not work as the SQL backend for the current public releases of Team Foundation.  There have been changes in SQL 2005 that require changes in TFS for it to work...

Skip the June CTP for Team Foundation

June 16, 2005 Jun 16, 2005 06/16/05

Buck Hodges

The June CTP of VS 2005 includes Team Foundation Server.  However, this is not the June CTP discussed in the Team Foundation MSDN forums and elsewhere.  That CTP is now scheduled for July (it was the last week of June, so it didn't change much).  So, anywhere you've see a reference to the June CTP for TFS in the forums...