Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

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Windows Phone SDK now available in Build for Team Foundation Service

November 9, 2012 Nov 9, 2012 11/9/12
Buck Hodges
Brian mentioned this in a blog post last week, but I think it may have gotten lost in everything else that was going on. The Team Foundation Service’s build feature (i.e., build in the cloud) has the Windows Phone SDK installed on it now so that you can build you Windows Phone 8 (and 7) apps. The blocker here had been that the SDK could ...

DevDiv is now running on TFS 2012 Update 1 final CTP

October 29, 2012 Oct 29, 2012 10/29/12
Buck Hodges
Back in June, I wrote about the upgrade of the main Developer Division server to TFS 2012 RC. That post described both the scale of that server as well as the issues that we found in the process of upgrading it and the for the first week of running it (we found most all of the issues in the first week). Last month we upgraded that server to ...

Internal error loading the Changeset Comments checkin policy

October 19, 2012 Oct 19, 2012 10/19/12
Buck Hodges
[Update 11/26/12] You can get the fix by installing Update 1 (or newer) for Visual Studio 2012: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads. Some customers, after starting to use Visual Studio 2012 with their existing TFS deployment, have been receiving check-in policy errors having to do with the Changeset Comments policy. The errors...

Developer Division is running on TFS 2012 RC!

June 8, 2012 Jun 8, 2012 06/8/12
Buck Hodges
This past weekend we upgraded the TFS server used by the Developer Division and other teams who deliver Visual Studio 2012.  It is now running TFS 2012 RC! Back in the beginning, the DevDiv server was our dogfood server.  Then as all of the folks shipping products in Visual Studio, there were too many critical deadlines to be able ...

After upgrading: Updating licensing and enabling async checkout for server workspaces

June 3, 2012 Jun 3, 2012 06/3/12
Buck Hodges
The other day I wrote a post with a summary of links for upgrading team project settings to turn on all of the new features, such as code review, task board, and more. There are a couple more things I want to point out that you’ll want to tweak after the upgrade. First is licensing for the feature set.  The default setting is ...