Restrict Team Foundation Build permissions

August 6th, 2014

Do you have code that should be seen by only a subset of members of your on-premises team project collection? Do you use Team Foundation Build (TFBuild)? If so, you must create some custom groups to reduce the risk that unauthorized team project collection members can use a build process to bypass team project permissions. ...

Conduct a Git pull request on Visual Studio Online

June 10th, 2014

When you want people on your team to review code in a Git team project on Visual Studio Online, you can use a pull request to review and merge the code. Pull requests enable developers working in topic branches to get feedback on their changes from other developers prior to submitting the code into the master branch. Any developer ...

Visual Studio 2013 Team Foundation Server version control and build

October 17th, 2013

As Charles announced earlier today, we've just released Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2013. I'm here today to briefly highlight what's new in version control and TFBuild and to advise you about a known issue in TFBuild that we're working to fix. I need to tell you about one bug we recently discovered that causes a problem in ...

Get started with some basic TFBuild scripts

July 23rd, 2013

You want to run some of your business logic during your TFBuild process. Maybe before, or maybe after Team Foundation Build (TFBuild) compiles or tests your code. For example, before you compile, you want to set the version of your assembly files. Or after you compile, you want to control the build outputs that get dropped to your staging ...

Visual Studio 2013 Preview: Git version control and Team Foundation Build

June 26th, 2013

I'm here today (and trying real hard to not be jealous of those of you reading this from beautiful San Francisco) to share some new information about version control and Team Foundation Build (TFBuild) in Visual Studio 2013 Preview. Version control I doubt many of you are surprised to hear that one of our big investments for...

core.ignorecase corruption issue fixed in Visual Studio Tools for Git 0.8.0.0

March 7th, 2013

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Customize Git settings in Visual Studio

February 26th, 2013

// By: Andy Lewis and Matthew Mitrik Today we're here to help you: Got the latest version of Visual Studio with Git? If not, click here. To use the Visual Studio client tools you'll need to install Visual Studio 2012, apply Visual Studio 2012 Update 2, and finally install Visual Studio Tools for Git. If you want to use Team ...

Run CI builds in your Git team project

February 12th, 2013

<!-- // <!-- Run CI builds in your Git team project --> Does your team use continuous integration (CI)? Are you an early adopter of the new Git capabilities in Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service? If so, you'll be glad to hear that you can define a CI build process that automatically builds and tests the code that your ...

Create, Connect, and Publish using Visual Studio with Git

February 6th, 2013

// <!-- Create, Connect, and Publish using Visual Studio with Git --> By: Andy Lewis and Matthew Mitrik (MS) In the few days since we announced Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service support for Git, it's been exciting to see so much interest, along with a lot of great feedback and questions. We will take your feedback to help us...

Getting Started with Git in Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service

January 30th, 2013

By Matthew Mitrik (MS), Andy Lewis, and Martin Woodward Today we announced the availability of Git for Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service. In this post, we'll walk through the new experiences. Get set up: Get the free service, and then you can use it with any Git client tools you want, including Visual Studio. To use the Visual ...