Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

Mainstream support for TFS 2010 ends in July

March 6, 2015 Mar 6, 2015 03/6/15

Buck Hodges

Time flies, and the end of mainstream support for Team Foundation Server 2010 is July 14th. Yep, we’re celebrating it on Bastille Day. If you are still using TFS 2010, now is a great time to upgrade to TFS 2013 Update 4. Also, our next public pre-release of TFS 2015 will be “go-live” (the current CTP is not), meaning you can ...

OData Service for TFS v2

January 9, 2013 Jan 9, 2013 01/9/13

Buck Hodges

Brian Keller has released a beta of the second version of his OData service. We are also working to bring it to TF Service, so stay tuned. Check out the beta and give him feedback! OData Service for Team Foundation Server v2 Today we are releasing the beta of the OData Service for Team Foundation Server v2 along with a sample Windows ...

Upgrading TFS build from 2010 to 2012 – issues and workarounds

October 24, 2012 Oct 24, 2012 10/24/12

Buck Hodges

Jason Prickett has written a blog post summarizing issues and workarounds for problems encountered with TFS build when upgrading from TFS 2010 to TFS 2012. Upgrading your build definitions from TFS2010 to TFS2012 Follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/tfsbuck...

Standalone installer for the TFS client object model

July 14, 2012 Jul 14, 2012 07/14/12

Buck Hodges

[UPDATE 12/13/12] The TFS 2012 Object Model Installer is now available for download. This past week we released an installer for the Team Foundation Server 2010 SP1 client object model. Up to this point the only way to get it was to install Team Explorer. For folks writing tools that access TFS, this was a pain, as having to ...

Running only impacted tests in TFS 2010 Build

March 12, 2012 Mar 12, 2012 03/12/12

Buck Hodges

Richard Hundhausen pointed out this blog post recently, and I thought I’d mention it here. Rob Maher walks through the process of setting up a build definition to run only the tests that involve the code that was changed. TFS 2010 Build - Only run impacted tests If your tests take a long time to run, you may wish to only run ...

Team Foundation Version Control client API example for TFS 2010 and newer

March 10, 2012 Mar 10, 2012 03/10/12

Buck Hodges

Over six years ago, I posted a sample on how to use the version control API. The API changed in TFS 2010, but I hadn’t updated the sample. Here is a version that works with 2010 and newer and is a little less aggressive on clean up in the finally block. This is a really simple example that uses the version control API. ...

Listing the work items associated with changesets for a path

February 1, 2012 Feb 1, 2012 02/1/12

Buck Hodges

Philip wrote a simple app to list the work items associated with the changesets for a given path, and it’s in some ways an enhanced update of Naren’s post. Given an URL to a collection and a server path (e.g., $/myproject/coolthing), it will list the work items that are associated with the most recent 25 checkins. This sample...

How to get the TFS objects used in our own UI integration

January 25, 2012 Jan 25, 2012 01/25/12

Buck Hodges

Philip, a dev on version control, recently helped with a question on how to get the TFS objects we use in our UI. I thought I’d post since others may find it useful. We recently had a request from a customer for a VS add-in that would be able to access the same TfsTeamProjectCollection and VersionControlServer objects that our ...

How to subscribe to checkins not under a particular path

October 31, 2011 Oct 31, 2011 10/31/11

Buck Hodges

Nick Kirchem, who works on the TFS web access team, recently answered a question on how email subscriptions on checkin alerts. The question was, how do I subscribe to checkin alerts not under a particular folder? Here’s how to do it. bissubscribe /eventType CheckinEvent /address someone@domain.com /deliveryType EmailHtml /server ...

TFS 2010 SP1 Cumulative Update 1 available (again)

August 15, 2011 Aug 15, 2011 08/15/11

Buck Hodges

Brian posted about the cumulative update for TFS (the TFS SKU, not the client/VS) back in June. After it was released we learned of a couple of bugs in it, including one where upgrades would not work in certain cases. Last Thursday, we re-released it with all of the known bugs fixed. We understand where we went wrong, and we ...

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