Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

Team Build - Buck Hodges

How would you prioritize features for MSBuild?

November 18, 2007 Nov 18, 2007 11/18/07
Buck Hodges
Dan Moseley, a developer on the MSBuild team, wants to know how you would prioritize features for the next version of MSBuild by asking, How would you spend $100 on MSBuild?  The release of Visual Studio 2008 is imminent, which means the product teams are beginning to work on the future, and he posts about some of the features that they ...

TFSBuildLab 1.0 for TFS 2005

November 1, 2007 Nov 1, 2007 11/1/07
Buck Hodges
I last mentioned TFSBuildLab back in August when it reached beta 2.  Peter Blomqvist and Mathias Olausson have now released 1.0.  For those of you who aren't going to move to TFS 2008 in the near future (it ships by the end of this year), you'll want to look into this.  I also posted a list of CI solutions for TFS 2005 about a ...

Preview of the build notification tray applet power tool for TFS 2008

September 21, 2007 Sep 21, 2007 09/21/07
Buck Hodges
[UPDATE 12/21/07]  The build notification tool has now become part of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008!  It has new features and quite a few fixes (not to mention that it's a signed binary), so I've removed the attachment from this post. We would have loved to have included in TFS 2008 a build notification tray applet along the lines...

Dave McKinstry on Build in TFS 2008

September 6, 2007 Sep 6, 2007 09/6/07
Buck Hodges
Dave McKinstry has written a couple of posts on his experiences with Team Build in TFS 2008.  In Introduction to Team Build 2008 for Team Build 2005 Users, he goes over the major new features and how certain things like handling workspace mappings are improved over TFS 2005.  His post includes screenshots and more.  It's a great...

TFSBuildLab beta 2 for TFS 2005

August 30, 2007 Aug 30, 2007 08/30/07
Buck Hodges
I mentioned TFSBuildLab a month ago when it hit beta 1.  Peter Blomqvist and Mathias Olausson have been hard at work and have now released beta 2.  They expect to hit 1.0 in the near future.  If you are looking for features like continuous integration and scheduled builds in TFS 2005, you'll want to give this a try. What ...

TFS 2008 Beta 2 upgrade fixes are now available

August 29, 2007 Aug 29, 2007 08/29/07
Buck Hodges
We discovered and fixed several issues that blocked some users from upgrading from TFS 2005 to TFS 2008 Beta 2.  You can get the instructions and download the two updated executables at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C4015D2F-2383-4270-9AAD-97129590F31D&displaylang=en. Overview SYMPTOMSWhen you upgrade a ...

TFS 2008: Calling custom targets and documentation for the beta 2 object model

August 15, 2007 Aug 15, 2007 08/15/07
Buck Hodges
Aaron Hallberg has a written a great post on one of the new extensibility mechanisms we've added to the Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets file that forms the backbone of the msbuild process (it's imported by every tfsbuild.proj file and contains all of the targets and properties).  Aaron shows you how to have a different target ...