Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

Building .NET 4.0 Apps with Team Foundation Build 2008

William Bartholomew, former VSTS MVP and author of the book Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build, recently joined Microsoft.  He's written a great post on the handful of steps you need to follow if you want to build .NET 4.0 applications with TFS 2008:  Building .NET 4.0 Applications Using Team ...

What features are in TFS Basic 2010?

Earlier, I wrote a post explaining where to find TFS Basic.  Someone asked a set of questions about TFS Basic, and I thought I’d post the answers here. What features are in TFS Basic 2010? Brian’s post describes a bit of the feature differences and also shows the installation process. It’s really much easier to talk ...

Where is TFS Basic?

TFS Basic is not a separate download.  It’s just a choice in the TFS configuration wizard.  So to get TFS Basic, you download the regular Team Foundation Server installation, either 32-bit or 64-bit (yes, TFS now supports 64-bit Windows natively), and then run setup.exe.  After the MSI (installation phase that more or less ...

Dell Mini 9 and Win7: Getting a Microsoft Bluetooth mouse working

Win7 is awesome, so today I put Windows 7 Professional on my Dell Mini 9.  This is the third laptop on which I’ve installed Win7, and every time it puts a smile on my face.  The installation works well and generally most devices work after installation, minimizing time spent fiddling with drivers.  The few devices that don...

Hosted TFS discounted for Microsoft BizSpark members

If you are in the Microsoft BizSpark program, you now have access to discounted TFS hosting from SaaS Made Easy.  Paul Hacker, a VSTS MVP, posted the announcement on his blog earlier this week.  He also provides some info on BizSpark, which is a fantastic program for startups. BizSpark Hosted TFS I would like to announce that ...

Using Test Impact in VSTS 2010

Dennis Stone, a tester on Team Test, has posted a great walkthrough of using the new test impact feature of 2010.  If you aren't familiar with test impact, it's a feature that tells you which tests execute the code you've changed in a checkin.  Rather than run all of the tests, you can run only the tests that test the code you ...

TFS 2010 Beta 1: Don’t run initial configuration from the administration console (MMC)

Beta 1 for TFS 2010, along with VS and VSTS, is now available to MSDN subscribers and will be available for broad download shortly.  Be sure to check out the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 First Look site to see what’s in this release, as well as the documentation on MSDN.  Brian has written posts on TFS 2010 features in ...

TFS 2008 supports SQL 2008 SP1

SQL 2008 SP1 has just been released, and we've gotten a couple of questions about whether it is supported with with Team Foundation Server 2008.  We tested SQL 2008 SP1 with both the original release of TFS 2008 and TFS 2008 SP1, and we do fully support using it with either release of TFS 2008.[UPDATE 4/14/2009]  If you are ...