Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

Source Control - Buck Hodges

CVS compared with Team Foundation Version Control

June 3, 2005 Jun 3, 2005 06/3/05
Buck Hodges
In the Team Foundation forum a question was asked regarding CVS compared to Team Foundation Version Control.  Here's what I wrote. Of course, Team Foundation is much more than version control since we have integrated work item tracking, reporting, etc.I'm biased, of course, and I'm probably leaving stuff out.  I've used CVS in the ...

How to use the TF version control command line from VS 2003 and other environments

June 3, 2005 Jun 3, 2005 06/3/05
Buck Hodges
We've had a lot of customer feedback on wanting integration in VS 2003, VB6, etc.  The problem with the VS 2003 environment is that there can only be a single version of the CLR loaded into a process.  VS 2003 loads 1.1.  The TF source control integration requires that the 2.0 CLR be used.  Thus, our VS integration code won...

VSTS Pricing Announcement

May 12, 2005 May 12, 2005 05/12/05
Buck Hodges
Pricing is an important topic, and I've written several posts about it.  Today Rick LaPlante announced changes to the pricing of VSTS in response to customer feedback.Here's one part from Rick's post that I think will really make some people happy. One area where we received a lot of feedback was from smaller organizations ...

Team Foundation Hardware Requirements

May 11, 2005 May 11, 2005 05/11/05
Buck Hodges
Many folks are interested in guidance on hardware.  In the Team Foundation forum, Brian Harry, Product Unit Manager of Team Foundation, posted the latest preliminary hardware requirements.If you are going with a single processor box (or if you want to maximize performance), I would recommend changing the warehouse update interval to ...

Eliminate ctl00oReportCell error and simplifying team project creation authorization

May 10, 2005 May 10, 2005 05/10/05
Buck Hodges
Mike Attili has a posted a couple of useful things for using the Team Foundation beta.If you are tired of getting the "Unable to locate control: ctl00oReportCell" message, check out his solution to elminating the problem in Eliminate ctl00oReportCell error in Team System Project Portal.He also provides a guide for setting up a group and ...

How to fix a problem with Windows backup and the Volume Shadow Service after installing Yukon April CTP

May 7, 2005 May 7, 2005 05/7/05
Buck Hodges
In the Team Foundation forum, a user posted the following problem with Windows backup after installing Team Foundation Server, including the April CTP of SQL 2005. Prior to installing Team Foundation Server and Client I was able to use the Windows backup utility to successfully create an ASR backup and full backup of the server. After ...