Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

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How would you prioritize features for MSBuild?

November 18, 2007 Nov 18, 2007 11/18/07
Buck Hodges
Dan Moseley, a developer on the MSBuild team, wants to know how you would prioritize features for the next version of MSBuild by asking, How would you spend $100 on MSBuild?  The release of Visual Studio 2008 is imminent, which means the product teams are beginning to work on the future, and he posts about some of the features that they ...

TFS 2008 ships this month

November 6, 2007 Nov 6, 2007 11/6/07
Buck Hodges
Yesterday, Soma announced that VS 2008 and TFS 2008 ship this month.  Prior to that, we had only said it would ship by the end of this year.  It's going to be an exciting month. Not long after TFS 2008 ships, we're going to ship the final version of the Team System Web Access 2008 Power Tool, and it includes a few new features. ...

Using VSTS 2008 memory allocation profiling

October 9, 2007 Oct 9, 2007 10/9/07
Buck Hodges
I wanted to learn about the memory allocation profiling feature that is available VSTS 2008.  While the profiler was also in VSTS 2005, the profiler will now also profile memory usage in addition to performance.  A very good place to start is Ian Huff's blog.  He's written a number of posts about the profiler. To use profiling...

Operations Guidance for TFS

October 2, 2007 Oct 2, 2007 10/2/07
Buck Hodges
Jeff Beehler has announced that we have now published guidance for operations.  In addition to all of the great information in there, it provides a great summary of TFS links (see the bottom of the article in particular). Operations Guidance for TFS The Team System Rangers have done it again.  Their mission is the accelerate ...

Deleting test results from a build

August 2, 2007 Aug 2, 2007 08/2/07
Buck Hodges
In either TFS 2005 or TFS 2008, you can delete the test results published against a build (How to: Publish Test Results).  However, discovering this feature may be difficult, and I didn't find it on MSDN in a quick search of the docs. What you'll need to do is to bring up the build details (aka the build report) in Visual Studio.  ...

Team System Web Access (formerly TeamPlain) power tools release is now available!

July 30, 2007 Jul 30, 2007 07/30/07
Buck Hodges
[UPDATE 7/31/2007]  I've updated the link with the main MSDN page for TSWA.  There's also an FAQ now. We have just released Team System Web Access power tool for TFS 2005!  You can download it now. Team System Web Access (formerly known as TeamPlain) is a Web interface to Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server...

Team Foundation Server 2008 Beta 2: Summary of links to Team Build information

July 26, 2007 Jul 26, 2007 07/26/07
Buck Hodges
Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, including Team Foundation Server 2008, is now available for download.  As mentioned in Soma's post, Beta 2, unlike beta 1, includes the "go live" provision in the license, meaning that you can use it in production.  We've been using TFS 2008 beta 2 on our main internal dogfood server now for the last two ...