Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

TFS API - Buck Hodges

Using an ASP.NET TFS data source

April 25, 2007 Apr 25, 2007 04/25/07
Buck Hodges
Kannan Sundararajan has written a couple of posts on how to use TFS as an ASP.NET data source.  If you are interested in displaying TFS data in ASP.NET-driven web pages, you'll want to check it out. First he shows you how to build the data source and gives you the code that you need to build the dll. TFS Data Source ASP.NET Control ...

TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit pre-release published on CodePlex

April 23, 2007 Apr 23, 2007 04/23/07
Buck Hodges
Matt Mitrik, the program manager for the TFS migration tools, has announced the availability of the first pre-release version of the Team Foundation Server migration and synchronization toolkit.  If you are looking into how to migrate away from a different bug tracking or version control system, this is where you'll want to start.  ...

Stop piling on when the build breaks: Build checkin policy for Continuous Integration in Orcas

March 28, 2007 Mar 28, 2007 03/28/07
Buck Hodges
Last fall, Clark Sell wrote a blog post called Stop, the build is broken!! that introduced a checkin policy that reported errors when the build was broken.  If you are using continuous integration where every checkin starts a build, you want folks to stop and fix build breaks when they occur, rather than pile on more checkins and ...

Visual Studio 4.0 SDK is now available (includes updates to TFS extensibility documentation)

March 1, 2007 Mar 1, 2007 03/1/07
Buck Hodges
The Visual Studio 4.0 SDK was released today.  Here's the announcement. On behalf of the VS Tools Ecosystem team, we are pleased to announce that after months of hard work, we have completed shipping the VS SDK 4.0 RTM release! We have done tons of work to make this release friendly to developers who are new to Visual Studio ...

Orcas March CTP is available now and includes new Team Foundation Server

February 28, 2007 Feb 28, 2007 02/28/07
Buck Hodges
Here's the announcement.  Please download the TFS Virtual PC image and let us know what you think.  Except for build scheduling, this CTP contains all of the new Team Build features, including continuous integration. We are excited to announce that the Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas” March 2007 CTP is now available ...

TFSBuildManager – project on CodePlex

January 12, 2007 Jan 12, 2007 01/12/07
Buck Hodges
Lorenzo Barbieri wrote about a tool on CodePlex called TFSBuildManager.  I didn't know about this one.  It's a tool written by Dudu Shmaya.  The CodePlex project page has the following about the project. TFSBuildManager TFSBuildManager is a utility to manage Team Foundation build types in an environment other than Visual Studio...

A checkin policy to detect that the build is broken in a CI environment

October 26, 2006 Oct 26, 2006 10/26/06
Buck Hodges
One important aspect of Continuous Integration is getting notification that the build is broken.  One common way is via a desktop notification from an application like TfsAlert that listens for events (or polls if there isn't a TFS-style event notification mechanism).Ideally, the build or unit test break would be noticed as soon as ...