Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

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TFS shipped one year ago today!

March 17, 2007 Mar 17, 2007 03/17/07
Buck Hodges
As Jeff Beehler points out, we shipped TFS one year ago today.  In the intervening time, we reorganized and completed the TFS development work on Orcas (minus a few design change requests (DCRs)), which you can try out in the March Orcas CTP (since it's based on TFS code from January, not everything is in there, such as build scheduling...

I’m in Redmond

March 4, 2007 Mar 4, 2007 03/4/07
Buck Hodges
I don't travel much.  It's been almost exactly a year since I was in Redmond.  In March 2006, Ed Hintz and I gave a presentation on version control.This time Jim Lamb and I are here to learn about some of the internal build systems as part of our planning for the future.  Well, Jim's here to party with the PMs as well.  I ...

Eric Lee’s Orcas Team Build Screencasts

March 2, 2007 Mar 2, 2007 03/2/07
Buck Hodges
Eric Lee of Counterpunch Software (former Softie) has started posting about Orcas features in the March CTP.First, he goes through a list of new features with some screenshots. A Baker's Dozen of New Features in Orcas There is nothing like having a new version of Visual Studio to play around with :) Not that Visual Studio 2005 is all that old...

Visual Studio 4.0 SDK is now available (includes updates to TFS extensibility documentation)

March 1, 2007 Mar 1, 2007 03/1/07
Buck Hodges
The Visual Studio 4.0 SDK was released today.  Here's the announcement. On behalf of the VS Tools Ecosystem team, we are pleased to announce that after months of hard work, we have completed shipping the VS SDK 4.0 RTM release! We have done tons of work to make this release friendly to developers who are new to Visual Studio ...

Orcas March CTP is available now and includes new Team Foundation Server

February 28, 2007 Feb 28, 2007 02/28/07
Buck Hodges
Here's the announcement.  Please download the TFS Virtual PC image and let us know what you think.  Except for build scheduling, this CTP contains all of the new Team Build features, including continuous integration. We are excited to announce that the Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas” March 2007 CTP is now available ...

Schema for the WorkspaceMapping.xml file

February 28, 2007 Feb 28, 2007 02/28/07
Buck Hodges
The WorkspaceMapping.xml file is one of the files generated when creating a new build type.  Those of you who've had to customize a build are probably familiar with the TfsBuild.proj file, which is the top-level file used to orchestrate the build.The WorkspaceMapping.xml file is used by one of the custom tasks to create the TFS workspace ...