Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

How to connect to TF Service without a prompt for LiveID credentials

January 7, 2013 Jan 7, 2013 01/7/13

Buck Hodges

Normally when you connect to the Team Foundation Service you are presented with a web page to log in with your Microsoft Account (aka LiveID). When you log in you can choose to have it remember you and you won’t have to enter your Microsoft Account credentials again (unless you don’t log in again for a long time, and then you’ll be ...

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 ...

TFS 11: API for teams and understanding burn down charts

May 23, 2012 May 23, 2012 05/23/12

Buck Hodges

Ivan Popek has been spending a lot of time lately digging into TFS 11. He has written a series of posts on the APIs for teams in TFS 11, and he explains the burn down chart trend lines. Follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/tfsbuck...

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 ...

How to distribute custom checkin policies and work item controls using the power tools

March 28, 2011 Mar 28, 2011 03/28/11

Buck Hodges

Custom checkin policies and custom work item controls are great ways to take advantage of the extensibility of TFS. You can use checkin policies to enforce certain standards on checkins (even in your builds). Custom work item controls allow you to add controls to your work item forms that present data in particular way, access...

Team Foundation 2010 SDK published

July 6, 2010 Jul 6, 2010 07/6/10

Buck Hodges

Allen Clark has announced the publication of the first release of the TFS 2010 SDK. This represents a significant improvement in the documentation for the TFS API, and he will be releasing updates to it on a recurring basis. The first release is small (relative to the size of the TFS API), but it will grow. Be sure to leave ...

Posts on using the new team project collection APIs

June 15, 2010 Jun 15, 2010 06/15/10

Buck Hodges

Taylor Lafrinere, a developer on Team Foundation Server who wrote a significant part of the new core server infrastructure APIs, has written a series of posts explaining some of the different parts. If you have other parts of the API that you are interested in, be sure to leave a comment on one of his posts.Here are a few of his posts to...

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