Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

How quaint: 1,000,000 files and 10,000 changesets

April 19, 2007 Apr 19, 2007 04/19/07

Buck Hodges

I wrote posts when we hit 1,000,000 files (Nov. 18, 2005) and 10,000 changesets (Sept. 26, 2005) on the DevDiv server. When you look at the April 2007 statistics (April 18, 2007) for that server, we're at 77,658,652 files and 204,556 changesets. Clearly, that's a huge change in roughly 18 months. The file count climbs dramatically...

Configuring Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

April 17, 2007 Apr 17, 2007 04/17/07

Buck Hodges

[UPDATE 7/26/07] Final guidance is now available. Brian Keller has posted information on how to get WSS 3.0 to work with TFS 2005, which has been a very popular request. This approach has been designed such that the server will still be serviceable after the change (i.e., you'll still be able to apply patches and upgrade to ...

TFS tools on CodePlex (April ’07)

April 4, 2007 Apr 4, 2007 04/4/07

Buck Hodges

Sébastien Monteil, C# MVP, sent me email about a tool on CodePlex called Fissum, which is a tray app that shows your work items. That reminded me that back in September I wrote a post listing the tools for Team Foundation Server on CodePlex. So I thought this would be a good time to post a new list. It's great to see ...

VSTS International Survey

April 3, 2007 Apr 3, 2007 04/3/07

Buck Hodges

Aldo Donetti, lead PM on the VSTS globalization team, sent out email today about the newly released VSTS International Surveys. These complement the previously released English language survey. There are both language-specific and some country-specific surveys. If you use VSTS in one of the languages and/or countries below, ...

Configuring Team Foundation Server to use fully-qualified domain names

March 31, 2007 Mar 31, 2007 03/31/07

Buck Hodges

This week the following question came up. I've seen this come up before, and there are probably forum threads on it, but I figured I'd post it here. Bill Essary provided the answer to the question. As always, keep notes on what you do so that you can undo it if necessary. Question Is there a way to configure TFS to use ...

Better integrating other build tools into your build

March 30, 2007 Mar 30, 2007 03/30/07

Buck Hodges

Aaron Hallberg wrote a great post today showing how to use a custom task to better integrate other build tools, such as devenv (aka Visual Studio), as part of your build in Team Build. Building Non-MSBuild Projects With Team Build Building non-MSBuild projects in Team Build has never been a particularly nice experience... You can ...

Version Control Server blog: Orcas destroy feature, merging with labels

March 30, 2007 Mar 30, 2007 03/30/07

Buck Hodges

The Version Control Server blog has shown some signs of life. Bill Tutt has written a couple of posts. The first one is about the Orcas version control feature that lots of customers have requested: destroy. The destroy command, which is only available from the tf.exe command line, will permanently remove the specified files ...

Stop piling on when the build breaks: Build checkin policy for Continuous Integration in Orcas

March 28, 2007 Mar 28, 2007 03/28/07

Buck Hodges

Last fall, Clark Sell wrote a blog post called Stop, the build is broken!! that introduced a checkin policy that reported errors when the build was broken. If you are using continuous integration where every checkin starts a build, you want folks to stop and fix build breaks when they occur, rather than pile on more checkins and ...

VSTS future releases: Orcas, Rosario, and Power Tools

March 26, 2007 Mar 26, 2007 03/26/07

Buck Hodges

A new high-level roadmap for Orcas, Rosario, and Power Tools is now available. The Visual Studio Team System Future Releases web page covers these topics at varying levels of detail, with the greatest amount detail being supplied for Orcas, of course. The Orcas TFS information is basically the same as what we've published before. ...

Web interface now available for TFS: Microsoft acquires TeamPlain

March 26, 2007 Mar 26, 2007 03/26/07

Buck Hodges

We have never had a web interface for Team Foundation Server work item tracking, much to the astonishment of our customers. Well, there's a fix for that now. And you can download it today (see below for details). Brian Harry wrote a post this morning about the acquisition of TeamPlain. Microsoft Acquires TeamPlain! Today we are ...

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