Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

VSTS - Buck Hodges

MSDN chat with the VSTS (including TFS!) product group is today!

July 3, 2007 Jul 3, 2007 07/3/07
Buck Hodges
The first chat is at 1:00 PM Eastern time, so I'm planning to be in that one. Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what's new in the upcoming Orcas CTP. We ...

Viewing test results in a web browser

May 30, 2007 May 30, 2007 05/30/07
Buck Hodges
Rido posted a cool way to see your test results from a build without having to copy the information locally and view it in VS.  Pretty cool! TestResults Reports in TFS Builds If you use TFSBuilds with VS UnitTests, you know how to inspect the TestResults: you must download the whole directory to your local machine, and sometimes ...

Chicago VSTS Users Group

May 2, 2007 May 2, 2007 05/2/07
Buck Hodges
For those of you in the Chicago area that use Team System, Clark Sell will be presenting at the Chicago VSTS Users Group meeting.  It should be a great time to learn more about VSTS! Chicago VSTS Users Group, Round 2 Since I am speaking this time, I can't help but self promote can I? Right now I am in the middle of sketching out content...

Update to “How to run tests in a build without test metadata files and test lists (.vsmdi files)”: Test Categories

April 27, 2007 Apr 27, 2007 04/27/07
Buck Hodges
 Pierre Greborio, a developer over in MSTV, has contributed a great new feature to the power tool task that allows you to run tests without .vsmdi files: test categories.  Those of you who have used NUnit are probably familiar with the Category attribute.  Test categories allow you to execute specific groups of unit tests. ...

VSTS Testing: Using Fiddler to record VSTS web tests

April 18, 2007 Apr 18, 2007 04/18/07
Buck Hodges
Sean Lumley, a developer on the VSTS web test team, has written a series of posts on using a new version of Fiddler to record web tests.  Sean worked with Eric Lawrence, who developed Fiddler, to incorporate new features that make this process much easier than in the past.  If you do any web testing, you'll want to check ...

VSTS International Survey

April 3, 2007 Apr 3, 2007 04/3/07
Buck Hodges
Aldo Donetti, lead PM on the VSTS globalization team, sent out email today about the newly released VSTS International Surveys.  These complement the previously released English language survey.  There are both language-specific and some country-specific surveys.  If you use VSTS in one of the languages and/or countries below, ...