Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

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Teamprise 3.0 Ships!

March 19, 2008 Mar 19, 2008 03/19/08
Buck Hodges
Martin Woodward write that Teamprise 3.0 has now been released!  If you want the equivalent of Team Explorer integrated into Eclipse on any platform or need a client from Linux or Mac, you'll definitely want to check out Teamprise. Here's a quick bullet list of features that I lifted from his post.  I'm particularly happy to see the...

Team Foundation Power Tools for Team Foundation Server 2008 available now!

December 21, 2007 Dec 21, 2007 12/21/07
Buck Hodges
Earlier today, we released the first version of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008! I want to highlight the build notification application.  This tool alerts you when a build is started or completed.  If the build breaks, you'll know immediately. (image) I posted a preview of the build notification app back in September.  Based ...

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

November 7, 2007 Nov 7, 2007 11/7/07
Buck Hodges
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...

Changing TFS email notifications to link to Team System Web Access

September 14, 2007 Sep 14, 2007 09/14/07
Buck Hodges
Neno Loje has written a blog post that shows you the steps to change the links in the TFS work item alert emails into links to work items in TSWA.  The standard links point you to a read-only page, which is not nearly as useful.Check it out! Changing TFS email notifications to link to Team System Web AccessTechnorati tags: tfs, team ...

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 ...

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 ...

V1.0 of the Migration and Synchronization Toolkit has been released!

June 29, 2007 Jun 29, 2007 06/29/07
Buck Hodges
Matt Mitrik, program manager for TFS migration and synchronization toolkit, has announced the release of version 1.0.  Note that it also includes the source code so that you can extend it as well. Check it out! V1.0 of the Migration and Synchronization Toolkit has been released! The first complete version of the Migration and ...