Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

July 2008 release of the power tools for TFS 2008 is now available

July 16, 2008 Jul 16, 2008 07/16/08

Buck Hodges

The download is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=00803636-1d16-4df1-8a3d-ef1ad4f4bbab&displaylang=en. Brian recently wrote a post about the new features: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/07/08/july-08-tfs-power-tool-preview.aspx. This release also includes some bug fixes to the build ...

How Do I: Use the Builds Check-in Policy?

March 20, 2008 Mar 20, 2008 03/20/08

Buck Hodges

A year ago I wrote a blog post about a new check-in policy that we added in build for TFS 2008 to prevent "piling on" when the build is broken in continuous integration environment. That post has all of the details on how it works and even the code showing you how it was implemented.Now Richard Hundhausen has a video on how to make ...

Visual Studio Team System Chat: April 9

March 20, 2008 Mar 20, 2008 03/20/08

Buck Hodges

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Team Foundation Server, Team Suite, Architecture Edition, Development Edition, Database Edition, and Test Edition. In addition, discuss what's new for these editions for Visual Studio 2008. Add to Calendar April 9, 2008 10:00 A.M. Pacific Time...

Teamprise 3.0 Ships!

March 19, 2008 Mar 19, 2008 03/19/08

Buck Hodges

Martin Woodward write that Teamprise 3.0 has now been released! If you want the equivalent of Team Explorer integrated into Eclipse on any platform or need a client from Linux or Mac, you'll definitely want to check out Teamprise. Here's a quick bullet list of features that I lifted from his post. I'm particularly happy to see the...

MSBuild project analysis tool: BuildCop

March 18, 2008 Mar 18, 2008 03/18/08

Buck Hodges

Jelle Druyts has created an interesting tool and made it available on CodePlex. Just Released: BuildCop v1.0! It is with great pleasure that I'm finally ready to release another open source tool on CodePlex: BuildCop. BuildCop is a tool that analyzes MSBuild project files (interactively or during e.g. a daily build) according to a ...

Setting up Source Server for TFS Builds

February 16, 2008 Feb 16, 2008 02/16/08

Buck Hodges

Jelle Druyts has posted a document describing how to set up source server for Team Foundation Build. If you don't know what it is, read the MSDN magazine article that is the first link in his post.Check it out! Setting up Source Server for TFS Builds I've read about symbol servers and source servers before (in John Robbins' ...

Team Foundation Build 2008 API documentation

February 13, 2008 Feb 13, 2008 02/13/08

Buck Hodges

The documentation for the team build 2008 object model is now available as a CHM file. Later this year, I'm told that the MSDN web site will be updated. http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/f/8/5f872c2e-4221-410b-b86e-4c3cd831b0c4/Team Foundation Build Managed Reference.chm After you download it you will need to right click it, ...

HTTP 502 error when the server tries to connect to the build agent to start a build

February 6, 2008 Feb 6, 2008 02/6/08

Buck Hodges

The following came up a couple of weeks ago, and I thought it would be worth posting for anyone else who hits the same or a similar problem. When I try to do a build using TFS Build I get this error: TF215085: An error occurred while connecting to Agent \Shopping Catalog\Nightly Build: The request failed with HTTP status 502: Bad ...

MSBuild by Example

February 5, 2008 Feb 5, 2008 02/5/08

Buck Hodges

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi's book, Deploying .NET Applications, contains a chapter on MSBuild. While I knew about the chapter in the book, I didn't realize that the chapter on MSBuild was available online until Eugene Zakhareyev mentioned it. If you are looking for a good way to get started with MSBuild, MSBuild: By Example is a good place ...

Visual Studio 2008 Web Deployment Project (WDP) is now available

February 4, 2008 Feb 4, 2008 02/4/08

Buck Hodges

The new Web Deployment Project that was released as a power tool for VS 2005 did not work with VS 2008. Now there is a release of WDP that works with VS 2008. If you were using the old one, be sure to get this important update. Announcing RTW version of Visual Studio 2008 Web Deployment Projects (WDP) In December 2007, we had ...

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