Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

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Authentication in web services with HttpWebRequest

July 28, 2004 Jul 28, 2004 07/28/04
Buck Hodges
Hatteras has three tiers: client, middle, and data.  The middle tier is an ASP.NET web service on a Windows 2003 Server running IIS 6.  When the client (we use C# for both it and the middle tier) connects to the middle tier, it must authenticate with IIS 6.  Depending upon the IIS configuration, that may be negotiate, NTLM, ...

The story on why Team System is not in Beta 1

July 22, 2004 Jul 22, 2004 07/22/04
Buck Hodges
Someone on the newsgroups asked for an official answer on why Team System is not in Whidbey Beta 1.  The short answer is that it's not beta quality, so it didn't belong in a beta.  Keep your eyes open for another CTP release in the next few months.  The current plans for this upcoming CTP are for it to include the server ...

May CTP to appear again

July 22, 2004 Jul 22, 2004 07/22/04
Buck Hodges
The May 2004 CTP that contained Team System (but not Team Foundation, which includes source control and work item tracking) is supposed to be up on MSDN by Monday.  There were a number of requests for it in the newsgroups after it was mistakenly removed from MSDN...

Scoble is everywhere

July 6, 2004 Jul 6, 2004 07/6/04
Buck Hodges
I got the July issue of Triangle TechJournal and opened it up to find an interview of Robert Scoble by Andy Beal (the interview doesn't appear to be on the web site yet). So even my mail box has been Scobleized.Among other things, he mentions taking 7400 pictures over the last 18 months.  Even for digital, that seems like a lot. ...

TechEd C# presentations

June 16, 2004 Jun 16, 2004 06/16/04
Buck Hodges
Duncan Mackenzie just posted a link to the C# TechEd 2004 page that has slides from some of the presentations (more to come).  Cool...

VSTS pricing

June 16, 2004 Jun 16, 2004 06/16/04
Buck Hodges
There have been questions about pricing in the newsgroups.  Here is what Raju Malhotra had to say about it.  As I understand it, many of the pricing details have yet to be worked out and are far from being set in stone. We will share the specific pricing details with you as soon as they are finalized but here is what we know. ...

Interfaces for the TFS source control client

June 15, 2004 Jun 15, 2004 06/15/04
Buck Hodges
The new source control system in Team Foundation will have several client interfaces.Command line   The command line interface provides a complete set of commands for performing all of your source control tasks.  When run interactively (i.e., the /noprompt option is not specified), some commands will bring up dialogs.  ...

A simple example using branch and merge

June 14, 2004 Jun 14, 2004 06/14/04
Buck Hodges
Merge is an overloaded word. There is a content merge and then there is a branch merge. A content merge is where you have edited a file and someone checked in a newer file, so the source control system will tell you to do a content merge before checking in the file (if it's interactive, it's a 3-way merge GUI). A branch merge is migrating ...

More on branching and merging vs. sharing and pinning

June 14, 2004 Jun 14, 2004 06/14/04
Buck Hodges
Branching and merging in TFS provide a more robust way to accomplish what sharing and pinning are often used for in VSS.  In TFS, you would branch a directory (source), using the "branch source target" command, to the desired location (target).  Then when there are changes in the source that you need in the target, you ...