Way back near the beginning of development of TFS version control, which was called Hatteras back then, we sent email to the team manually when we checked in. So I would typically write my checkin comment in Outlook, which was using Microsoft Word as the editor, and then paste it into the checkin dialog. My comment was a bulleted list of the changes that I made. I would start with an asterisk, and Word would convert it to a bullet. Later, viewing the changeset details on the command line would produce beeps. I knew that the Unicode bullet character was being converted to a BEL (0x07) character, but I didn’t know how the conversion worked.<\/p>\n
Raymond Chen’s<\/a> recent post, How a bullet turns into a beep<\/a>, provides the details on how the conversion happens, changing the Unicode bullet into a beep.<\/p>\n tags: tfs<\/a>, team foundation<\/a>, unicode<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Way back near the beginning of development of TFS version control, which was called Hatteras back then, we sent email to the team manually when we checked in. So I would typically write my checkin comment in Outlook, which was using Microsoft Word as the editor, and then paste it into the checkin dialog. My comment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":10268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,8],"class_list":["post-3033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-source-control","tag-team-foundation"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":" Way back near the beginning of development of TFS version control, which was called Hatteras back then, we sent email to the team manually when we checked in. So I would typically write my checkin comment in Outlook, which was using Microsoft Word as the editor, and then paste it into the checkin dialog. My comment […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}