Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

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

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 ...

Now available for TSWA 2008: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish

The final set of localized versions of the Team System Web Access 2008 Power Tool is now available. Here is a list of links to all of the localized releases of TSWA. We're always interested in what you think about the localizations, too.  If there are ways we can improve it, we would like to incorporate that feedback into TSWA...

MSBuild by Example

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 ...

TFSBuild.com: Build “recipes”

Grant Holliday has set up a great site for Team Build users to be able to contribute and find "recipes" to use in their builds.  Check it out! TFSBuild.com Build Recipes Launched Filed under: TFSBuild.com, Team Foundation Server — Grant Holliday @ 6:32 pm I’ve been thinking for a while that there’s not a lot of ...

Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2008 in Japanese is now available

Part of our plan for the TSWA 2008 Power Tool is to release localized versions.  Japanese is the first language to become available.  Chinese, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Korean are currently planned for release over the next month.Here's the download page in Japanese, along with a link to it. Team System Web Access (&#...