Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

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TFS 2010 SP1: Unknown error (0x80005000) (type COMException) – Make sure IIS 6 compat mode is turned on

March 15, 2011 Mar 15, 2011 03/15/11
Buck Hodges
[Update 3/16/11]  There is a KB article with TFS 2010 SP1 installation troubleshooting should you hit problems: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2516423. Problem A customer ran into this issue, and I want to post it to help anyone else who hits it.  The symptom is that you install Service Pack 1 for Team Foundation Server 2010, and ...

The book to buy on team build: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build, Second Edition

February 13, 2011 Feb 13, 2011 02/13/11
Buck Hodges
If you are responsible for work with your team’s build system, you will definitely want to buy a copy of Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build (Second Edition).  Both of the authors now work for Microsoft.  William Bartholomew is part of the central engineering team and has been building the ...

Web projects and team build

February 12, 2011 Feb 12, 2011 02/12/11
Buck Hodges
Vishal Joshi, lead program manager for web platform tools, has a great blog covering using various project types with Team Foundation Build.  Here’s a selection of his posts on using team build, which I highly recommend if you are working with web projects. Technorati Tags: team foundation,build,web projects,team ...

Code metrics command line tool

January 29, 2011 Jan 29, 2011 01/29/11
Buck Hodges
[UPDATE 3/24/12]  You can find a real code metrics activity here as part of the Community TFS Build Extensions. Cameron Skinner has announced a new command line tool for generating code metrics.  We’ve long gotten requests to be able to generate code metrics from the build.  Prior to this tool, code ...

Join the TFS development team and help shape the industry

December 16, 2010 Dec 16, 2010 12/16/10
Buck Hodges
Do you want to be a developer on the TFS team, solve challenging problems, and break new ground in ALM?  Then join the TFS development team in Redmond, WA.You’ll notice that we mention cloud computing with Azure below.  If you saw the PDC keynote demos this year, you saw some early work on getting TFS running on Azure.  If...

Help improve MSDN – give them your feedback

November 11, 2010 Nov 11, 2010 11/11/10
Buck Hodges
Please take a moment to provide feedback to the documentation team on the changes they’ve made recently.  They want to know what you think.  Thanks! We need your input on how well our improvements to the MSDN Library content work for you. Allen Clark has reorganized the topic: "Extending Visual Studio Application Lifecycle ...

How to figure out whether a change has made it to another branch

August 30, 2010 Aug 30, 2010 08/30/10
Buck Hodges
[UPDATE 11/5/12] I wanted to add that when using either the hierarchy view or the track changeset view, you can use Ctrl-C when the window has focus to get an image of it copied to the clipboard rather than having to use a screenshot tool. One of the great features in TFS 2010 is the ability to track changesets across branches. A prime ...