Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

Team Foundation Server - Buck Hodges

How to configure a TFS proxy to work with Team Services

October 12, 2016 Oct 12, 2016 10/12/16
Buck Hodges
If you are using Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) with Visual Studio Team Services, you can configure the Team Foundation Server Proxy to cache files for version control for your account. It’s very straightforward as the TFS configuration app will do the work for you. Let’s take a look at how to do that. I’m going through this with...

Gated checkin for Git: Using Branch Policies to run a build in VSTS and TFS

March 20, 2016 Mar 20, 2016 03/20/16
Buck Hodges
Let’s start with what gated checkin is, which is a feature we shipped as part of TFS 2010. Gated checkin enforces that a change in a branch builds and optionally passes tests (and anything else you want to do as part of your build) before it is checked in and available to everyone else in the branch. The gated checkin process we shipped ...

Tenth anniversary of Team Foundation Server

March 17, 2016 Mar 17, 2016 03/17/16
Buck Hodges
Today marks the tenth anniversary of shipping TFS 2005, which was our first version. We shipped nearly six months late – VS 2005 shipped in November 2005. The product has evolved an incredible amount since then. The most infamous part of the first version was how hard it was to install (we completely rewrote our setup in TFS 2010). We spent...

Moving TFS to cloud cadence and Visual Studio Online

February 27, 2015 Feb 27, 2015 02/27/15
Buck Hodges
We get quite a few questions from customers on how we made the transition to shipping both an on-premises product and a cloud service. We moved from shipping every 2-3 years to shipping Visual Studio Online every three weeks and TFS every 3-4 months. You’ve probably seen the great set of vignettes at Scaling Agile across the Enterprise. ...

Visual Studio and Team Explorer 2013 no longer require IE 10 for installation

November 8, 2013 Nov 8, 2013 11/8/13
Buck Hodges
When Visual Studio 2013 and Team Explorer 2013 were originally released, the installation process required that Internet Explorer 10 or newer was installed. Today we released updated installers that no longer require IE 10. You will get a warning at the beginning of your installation that looks like the screen shot below. For VS 2013 there ...

Updated Team Foundation Server 2013 download addressing web and installation path issues

November 8, 2013 Nov 8, 2013 11/8/13
Buck Hodges
Today we have updated the TFS 2013 installation packages both on the web download page and in MSDN subscriber downloads. The reason is that we found two bugs that we wanted to address broadly. We’ve made changes to be able to catch these types of issues in the future. Here are details on the two fixes. Fixed: Red error box when using ...

How to delete a team project from Team Foundation Service using the web UI

September 13, 2013 Sep 13, 2013 09/13/13
Buck Hodges
[Update 18 Nov. 2013] It is now easier to get to the UI to delete a project. Navigate to the home page for your team project, then click on the gear icon in the upper left, and then you can click on the drop down arrow that will show up when you mouse over the name of the team project. You now have the ability to delete a team project from TF...