Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

Team Build - Buck Hodges

Assigning work items for failed builds

October 17, 2006 Oct 17, 2006 10/17/06
Buck Hodges
Steven St. Jean has written a nice post about how to assign to a particular person the work item that's created for a failed build.  When he talks about the name for the Assigned To field, it must match the name that's displayed in work item tracking.  WIT shows the display name for a user, rather than the shorter domain login (aka ...

Creating a new server from an old one: Beware of the InstanceId

October 17, 2006 Oct 17, 2006 10/17/06
Buck Hodges
[UPDATE 8/23/14] The MSDN topic Move Team Foundation Server has the information about cloning TFS 2013. Today, that info is in the Q&A section at the bottom of that page.[This post contains instructions for TFS 2005/2008 and TFS 2010, which is in a separate section below]Grant Holliday wrote a post called, TFS InstanceId, ServerMap.xml and...

Understanding port configuration for Team Build

October 16, 2006 Oct 16, 2006 10/16/06
Buck Hodges
Etienne Tremblay, a Microsoft MVP, put up a nice Visio diagram showing the ports used by Team Build and the direction that must be opened for each.  Check it out! Team build the ins and outs So we learn stuff everyday... well I hope.  Here is a bit of insight on Team Build, specifically the ports that need to be opened for ...

Adding a path filter to a CheckinEvent subscription using bissubscribe

September 29, 2006 Sep 29, 2006 09/29/06
Buck Hodges
This week, a couple of people asked (forum post 1 and forum post 2) how to subscribe to the CheckinEvent notification when there's a checkin under a particular tree.  The first person wanted to filter by path in order to kick off continuous integration.  The second person wanted to filter by path for email subscriptions.Here's the ...

SP1 beta is now available

September 26, 2006 Sep 26, 2006 09/26/06
Buck Hodges
For Team Build users, I'll spare you the suspense and tell you that there are no meaningful changes in Team Build itself in SP1.  There are changes in other parts of the system, though, that will be of some benefit.Version control users will get a number of fixes, but most are related to scalability.Brian Harry described many of the ...

How to measure performance using the web service performance dialog

September 25, 2006 Sep 25, 2006 09/25/06
Buck Hodges
You may have read about the Team Foundation activity log, which is a database table containing the web service requests executed by the server (turning it on, interesting queries, and more interesting queries).  You may have also seen posts about turning on tracing, both server tracing (see Patrick Carnahan's first response)&...