Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

TFS client API changes from Beta 2 to RC

While I don’t have a comprehensive list, I do want to point out these four changes in particular because these classes are fundamental to the API.  If you have written code with the Beta 2 client API, here are the changes you will need to be aware of to use the RC client API. [UPDATE 2/12/10]  Jim Lamb has posted updated...

What features are in TFS Basic 2010?

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?

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 ...

How to list the team projects created with a particular template in TFS 2008 or 2010

This question came up on an internal discussion, and I thought the answer would be useful to post. Question How we can find the list of projects created with the a particular VSTF template in TFS 2008 or 2010? In TFS 2005 we can find out programmatically as well with the query but in the new version we are not able to do so. Answer...