Buck Hodges

Finding the changes between two labels in TFS version control

August 28, 2006 Aug 28, 2006 08/28/06

Buck Hodges

Carl Daniel (code) and Robert Downey (code) each wrote and posted code to show the changesets between two labels in TFS version control.  They each took the same basic approach: call QueryLabels() to get the set of items in each label, find the highest changeset version for each set of items, and then call QueryHistory() with the range of...

Dev lead for Team Build

August 24, 2006 Aug 24, 2006 08/24/06

Buck Hodges

For three years I worked on Team Foundation Server Version Control.  Most of my contributions were to the version control object model, the tf.exe command line, and general infrastructure.  After v1 shipped in March, we reorganized the TFS organization. Version 1 of TFS Team Build was developed by a small team in India, led by Gautam...

A tool for reporting expiration dates for RC and RTM trial editions of Team Foundation Server

August 23, 2006 Aug 23, 2006 08/23/06

Buck Hodges

As some customers have found out the hard way, the TFS release candidates have started to expire without warning at the end of the 6 month (180 days) period.  The TFS trial edition (RTM) will start to expire next month, again without warning.  It also expires 6 months after installation.This morning, Brian Harry posted a tool that ...

TFS exstensibility documentation on MSDN

August 15, 2006 Aug 15, 2006 08/15/06

Buck Hodges

I stumbled across the following pages on MSDN that provide step-by-step introduction to the basics of extending Team Foundation Server. [UPDATE 8/29/06]  Unfortunately, all of the links originally pointed to the same page, and I've now fixed them.  I didn't notice at the time that clicking on different links on that section of ...

RSS feed generators for Team Foundation

August 11, 2006 Aug 11, 2006 08/11/06

Buck Hodges

First there was Jeff's RSS feed generator for version control.  Then Abhinaba used it as a starting point for his RSS feed generator for team build.  Naren has now posted an RSS feed generator for work item tracking.  A quick web search yielded an RSS feed generator for SharePoint.  I couldn't find one for SQL ...