Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

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Outlook macro to create work item and changeset hyperlinks

September 20, 2005 Sep 20, 2005 09/20/05
Buck Hodges
[NOTE: If this post looks truncated, scroll down or make the browser window wider.  The style sheet causes this.] Ed Hintz, a dev lead on the TFS Version Control team, sends a lot of email with TFS work item numbers.  Work items can be viewed (not edited) in a web browser using an URL constructed from the server name and ...

Continuous Integration Demo Code from Doug Neumann’s TLN301 PDC Talk

September 19, 2005 Sep 19, 2005 09/19/05
Buck Hodges
Doug Neumann's TLN301 presentation, VSTS: Behind the Scenes of Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server (slides), featured a demonstration of how to use the server's check-in event notification to kick off a build for a continuous integration build system using Team Build.  A number of people asked for it, so we've decided to post ...

Doug Neumann on Channel 9

September 12, 2005 Sep 12, 2005 09/12/05
Buck Hodges
Doug Neumann, one of our esteemed Program Managers, is in a short video on Channel 9 talking about our office, version control, the proxy, etc.  He and Mario, our other version control PM, are at PDC this week.Doug Neumann - Source Code control guy on VSTS team...

How wide is a string when displayed in the console window?

September 11, 2005 Sep 11, 2005 09/11/05
Buck Hodges
Not too long ago, I had to fix the command line output for tf.exe, the Team Foundation Version Control command line app, so that output would be formatted properly for console windows (cmd.exe) using double-byte code pages.The code originally computed the output display width as the length of the string.  However, that's not correct ...

Hold the shift key and double click

August 23, 2005 Aug 23, 2005 08/23/05
Buck Hodges
I've learned two shortcuts recently that I didn't know existed in TFS source control integration in VS.  These may or may not work based on the build you are using. Double clicking the Source Control node in the Team Explorer will bring up the Source Control Explorer window.  What I learned recently is that holding the shift key and...

Why doesn’t Team Foundation get the latest version of a file on checkout?

August 20, 2005 Aug 20, 2005 08/20/05
Buck Hodges
I've seen this question come up a few times.  Doug Neumann, our PM, wrote a nice explanation in the Team Foundation forum (http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=70231). It turns out that this is by design, so let me explain the reasoning behind it.  When you perform a get operation to populate your workspace with a ...

Dogfood statistics update

August 20, 2005 Aug 20, 2005 08/20/05
Buck Hodges
John Lawrence posted the latest set of dogfood system statistics.  The deltas are from May I think, since it says checkins are up 4,500.  The June/early-July statistics are here.  One thing to note is that we now have more than 600,000 files and folders in the system.  Hopefully, we'll hit 1 million in the not too distant ...