Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

Transcript from the Feb. 7 VSTS MSDN Chat

February 28, 2007 Feb 28, 2007 02/28/07

Buck Hodges

Below are highlights from the Feb. 7 VSTS MSDN Chat (the full transcript is attached to the bottom of this post). I hadn't participated in one in a quite a while. We got quite a few questions, and there were lots of folks from the product team on hand to answer the questions. Keep an eye out for the next one. General...

Team Foundation Power Tools version 1.2 (aka TFS Power Toys)

February 21, 2007 Feb 21, 2007 02/21/07

Buck Hodges

We are happy to announce the release of version 1.2 of Team Foundation Power Tools (formerly known as Power Toys). This version includes some bug fixes to previous power tools, support for Vista, and adds the following new functionality: Please note that the Process Template Editor has some additional pre-requisites, ...

IE Add-in for filing bugs in TFS for web pages

January 3, 2007 Jan 3, 2007 01/3/07

Buck Hodges

Rob Caron wrote about the post Automatically raise bugs from IE on the Microsoft Developer Tools UK Sales Team blog. Here's the text of the post, and there's a screen shot on the GotDotNet page. Have you ever been in a position where someone raises a bug on a web page that you have been working on, but doesn't supply enough ...

Opportunity to provide feedback on Community Technology Previews (CTPs)

November 9, 2006 Nov 9, 2006 11/9/06

Buck Hodges

Brian Harry would like your feedback on how and when we do CTPs. Be sure to post comments on his blog! Feedback on VS Community Technology Previews (CTPs) We recently had an internal email thread with some people on our advisory councils giving us feedback on our CTP process. There was some interesting and somewhat surprising ...

Getting desktop notifications for TFS events

October 26, 2006 Oct 26, 2006 10/26/06

Buck Hodges

Clark Sell has created a home on CodePlex for a useful desktop notification tool called TfsAlert. TfsAlert is a .Net 3.0 smart client which monitors for user selected TFS events and will display a balloon window in the Windows TaskBar Notification Area. It is built on top of WCF where you can subscribe to any TFS event you feel fit. It's ...

Visual Studio Team System Chat – Wednesday, Nov. 8th

October 25, 2006 Oct 25, 2006 10/25/06

Buck Hodges

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 latest Community Technology Preview (CTP). November 8, 200610:00 - 11:00 A.M. Pacific TimeAdditional ...

Project Server 2003 – Team Foundation connector released

October 25, 2006 Oct 25, 2006 10/25/06

Buck Hodges

This was released today. Here's the announcement from the GotDotNet workspace. ANNOUNCING THE VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SYSTEM - PROJECT SERVER CONNECTOR! We are pleased to announce general availability of the Project Server 2003 – Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2005 Connector application. The Connector can be downloaded here...

Team System Virtual PC image, including Team Foundation Server

October 20, 2006 Oct 20, 2006 10/20/06

Buck Hodges

Someone recently asked me whether there is a VPC image available for Team System and Team Foundation. There is one available to MSDN subscribers in the download area. It’s under Developer Tools -> Visual Studio 2005 -> English -> Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Trial Edition (For Evaluation Only).Earlier versions of ...

Team Foundation Power Toys video on Channel 9

October 10, 2006 Oct 10, 2006 10/10/06

Buck Hodges

Brian Keller has put up a video on Channel 9 that has Erin Geaney, a developer on the TFS MS Office integration team, demonstrating the Team Foundation Power Toys that we updated recently. The original release of the power toys was nearly a year ago and was the work of an intern who worked for me, Philip Kelley (he also wrote a paper on ...

How to use the new Custom Controls in Work Item Forms (SP1)

October 3, 2006 Oct 3, 2006 10/3/06

Buck Hodges

Naren Datha<, a dev who works on the WIT client, has written a post on how to use the new work item tracking custom controls that are introduced in SP1 beta (he previously mentioned some ideas for custom controls). He provides an overview, details on how to create custom controls, some hints for troubleshooting, and a sample in a zip ...

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