Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

Team Foundation Server - Buck Hodges

Building .NET 4.0 Apps with Team Foundation Build 2008

November 4, 2009 Nov 4, 2009 11/4/09
Buck Hodges
William Bartholomew, former VSTS MVP and author of the book Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build, recently joined Microsoft.  He's written a great post on the handful of steps you need to follow if you want to build .NET 4.0 applications with TFS 2008:  Building .NET 4.0 Applications Using Team ...

What features are in TFS Basic 2010?

October 21, 2009 Oct 21, 2009 10/21/09
Buck Hodges
Earlier, I wrote a post explaining where to find TFS Basic.  Someone asked a set of questions about TFS Basic, and I thought I’d post the answers here. What features are in TFS Basic 2010? Brian’s post describes a bit of the feature differences and also shows the installation process. It’s really much easier to talk ...

Where is TFS Basic?

October 19, 2009 Oct 19, 2009 10/19/09
Buck Hodges
TFS Basic is not a separate download.  It’s just a choice in the TFS configuration wizard.  So to get TFS Basic, you download the regular Team Foundation Server installation, either 32-bit or 64-bit (yes, TFS now supports 64-bit Windows natively), and then run setup.exe.  After the MSI (installation phase that more or less ...

Hosted TFS discounted for Microsoft BizSpark members

September 5, 2009 Sep 5, 2009 09/5/09
Buck Hodges
If you are in the Microsoft BizSpark program, you now have access to discounted TFS hosting from SaaS Made Easy.  Paul Hacker, a VSTS MVP, posted the announcement on his blog earlier this week.  He also provides some info on BizSpark, which is a fantastic program for startups. BizSpark Hosted TFS I would like to announce that ...

TFS 2010 Beta 1: Don’t run initial configuration from the administration console (MMC)

May 18, 2009 May 18, 2009 05/18/09
Buck Hodges
Beta 1 for TFS 2010, along with VS and VSTS, is now available to MSDN subscribers and will be available for broad download shortly.  Be sure to check out the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 First Look site to see what’s in this release, as well as the documentation on MSDN.  Brian has written posts on TFS 2010 features in ...

TFS 2008 supports SQL 2008 SP1

April 9, 2009 Apr 9, 2009 04/9/09
Buck Hodges
SQL 2008 SP1 has just been released, and we've gotten a couple of questions about whether it is supported with with Team Foundation Server 2008.  We tested SQL 2008 SP1 with both the original release of TFS 2008 and TFS 2008 SP1, and we do fully support using it with either release of TFS 2008.[UPDATE 4/14/2009]  If you are ...

Sorting by multiple columns in work item tracking

March 22, 2009 Mar 22, 2009 03/22/09
Buck Hodges
Recently I was showing someone the results of a bug query and sorting by more than one column in work item tracking in Team Explorer.  When the person said he didn't realize that feature existed, I decided it would be worth posting.  This also works in Team System Web Access. To sort by more the one column, simply hold the Shift key ...