Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

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Improving the performance of the work item tracking client with TFS 2008 SP1

October 18, 2008 Oct 18, 2008 10/18/08
Buck Hodges
Martin Woodward has written a great post that describes a feature that was added in TFS 2008 SP1 to reduce the amount of work item tracking metadata cached by the client.  Depending on the number of team projects on your server and the number of fields and rules used by all work item types, this could result in a nice performance gain, ...

How to set up TFS 2008 SP1 to use TSWA links in checkin notification emails

October 14, 2008 Oct 14, 2008 10/14/08
Buck Hodges
One of the new features available in TFS 2008 SP1 is that a TSWA URL can be configured in the server so that checkin notification emails will have links to the Team System Web Access page for the changeset, which allows you to see the diffs for each of the changes. You can find the documentation for this feature at How to: Configure Work Item...

Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 is now available!

August 29, 2008 Aug 29, 2008 08/29/08
Buck Hodges
We've now released the final version of TSWA 2008 SP1, which had previously been released as a community technology preview (CTP).  There are some fantastic new features in this release, including the ability for users without CALs to create work items. Also, this release includes 10 languages: Japanese, Korean, Spanish, German, French, ...

July 2008 release of the power tools for TFS 2008 is now available

July 16, 2008 Jul 16, 2008 07/16/08
Buck Hodges
The download is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=00803636-1d16-4df1-8a3d-ef1ad4f4bbab&displaylang=en. Brian recently wrote a post about the new features: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/07/08/july-08-tfs-power-tool-preview.aspx. This release also includes some bug fixes to the build ...

TSWA tip: How to use the new TSWA template URL feature (initial value URL)

May 14, 2008 May 14, 2008 05/14/08
Buck Hodges
One of the new features we've added to TSWA for the SP1 release is the ability to create URLs that are effectively work item templates by virtue of the fact that they have the values for the work items embedded in the URL itself. Since constructing these URLs manually is really painful, we have an icon on the work item editor when you are ...

Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 CTP and Work Item Web Access 2008 CTP are now available

April 9, 2008 Apr 9, 2008 04/9/08
Buck Hodges
Hakan has announced the availability of the new TSWA community technology preview (CTP) in his post, What's New in TSWA 2008 SP1.  Personally, I would say this release is beta quality or better, so don't let the CTP designation scare you too much. Also released is the first CTP release of what we are calling Work Item Web Access (WIWA).&...

Spec available for “Codename TFS Bug Submission Portal”

March 28, 2008 Mar 28, 2008 03/28/08
Buck Hodges
Hakan Eskici, program manager for Team System Web Access, has posted the spec for a new power tool that's based on TSWA that is designed to help customers comply with the new licensing changes in TFS 2008 while getting the most out of the product.  Please read this, as well as the other Rosario specs, and give us your feedback. Spec ...