Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

Brian Harry’s explanation of Rosario

Brian's post What's in a Code Name? provides some explanation behind the Orcas and Rosario code names.  You won't hear the word "Rosario" normally, and here's a bit on why. What's in a Code Name? Mary Jo Foley is writing about one Microsoft code name per day on her blog.  I think it's pretty cool and there's a few code names I'...

How to add your own message in the build report

If you've ever wanted to add your own message in the "Build Steps" section of the detailed build report, Aaron Hallberg provides a custom task to do it.Aaron, along with the rest of the team, had been focused on finishing up the continuous integration feature for Team Build.  I'm happy to say that we got it finished and checked into the ...

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 released

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 was released yesterday.  Here are the direct download links. · VSTS SP1: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=BB4A75AB-E2D4-4C96-B39D-37BAF6B5B1DC&displaylang=en · TFS SP1: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=A9AB638C-04D2-4AEE-8AE8-9F00DD454AB8&...

Third party add-in: Test Manager Add-In for Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers

Many customers have expressed their disappointment with the fact that test lists (.vsmdi files) can only be created and managed in VSTS for Testers or VSTS Suite, leaving VSTS for Developers users in a bind.  There is now an add-in from Ekobit that solves this problem!  Check it out!Here's the announcement on Ognjen Bajic's blog. ...

Submit questions for the Channel 9 interviews of the NC TFS team

Brian Keller, technical evangelist for VSTS, is coming to the North Carolina office to interview Brian Harry and folks from each of the feature areas developed here (I'll be in the Team Build segment). Submit Your Questions for the Upcoming Channel 9 Interviews of the Team Foundation Server Team On Dec. 14 & 15 I will be ...

More on the Orcas features for Team Build

Brian Harry posted a TFS roadmap.  I'd like to expand on the portion that describes the features specific to Team Build.  Keep in mind that these features can change before Orcas ships, so there are no guarantees that it will match what's described below. Build There's a lot there.The first item refers to the feature in msbuild ...

TeamPrise 2.0

Congratulations to the TeamPrise team for shipping version 2.0!  Martin Woodward posts about it and includes screenshots. Teamprise Turns 2.0 Tuesday marked the beginning of my second year with Teamprise and today I'm very happy to report that we have just released Teamprise 2.0.  To celebrate I thought I'd give you a quick run ...

Continuous Integration in Team Build for Orcas

Brian Harry has written a post about an SD Times article about TFS.  Since he is the head of Team Foundation, his posts tend to have interesting tidbits in them, such as the following. It talks about the lack of continuous integration and the ability to schedule builds. It also talks about lack of a gui editor for build definitions. I ...

Building software against different versions of .NET with MSBuild in Orcas

Faisal Mohamood, a program manager on the MSBuild team, has written a pair of posts about the "multi-targeting" feature in the Orcas version of MSBuild.  Multi-targeting allows you to build your code against the .NET 2.0, 3.0, or 3.5 frameworks, according to your requirements.  This is great because it allows folks to have some ...

All of the Sysinternals tools in one download

Microsoft TechNet put them all in one convenient download. Sysinternals Suite Published: November 1, 2006 Introduction The entire set of Sysinternals Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools. This file contains all the individual tools and help files. (image) Download SysinternalsSuite (8 MB)tags: tools, sysinternals...