Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

OData service for TFS

April 10, 2011 Apr 10, 2011 04/10/11

Buck Hodges

Brian Keller has release a new OData service for TFS. He does a great job explaining it, and he also includes a video demo. OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010 What the heck is an OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010? I’m glad you asked. The purpose of this project is to help developers work with data ...

Professional Team Foundation Server 2010 is now out!

April 9, 2011 Apr 9, 2011 04/9/11

Buck Hodges

(image) In the year since the release of TFS 2010, we’ve seen a run of great new books coming, all by authors who really know their subject matter extremely well. At the beginning of the year, Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi and William Bartholomew published Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build, the book on MSBuild and TFS Build. Then ...

How to reject checkins with code analysis violations

April 9, 2011 Apr 9, 2011 04/9/11

Buck Hodges

Andrew Hall wrote a great post on the Code Analysis Team Blog about how to use the code analysis checkin policy with gated checkin in Team Foundation 2010 Build to reject checkins that have code analysis warnings or errors. He shows you how to configure the rule set and set up the gated build definition to enforce the code analysis rules...

We’re here, and we have a sign to prove it

March 30, 2011 Mar 30, 2011 03/30/11

Buck Hodges

Yeah, seven years in this location, and the building had no outward markings to indicate that our office is here. It’s official. We’re here. Really...

How to turn on compression for TFS 2010 web services

March 30, 2011 Mar 30, 2011 03/30/11

Buck Hodges

In the past, we’ve turned on compression for the SOAP responses for the TFS web services. In TFS 2010, you must do it manually. In the future, I hope we have it turned on by default. It’s particularly good for teams that aren’t at the same location as the TFS server. For users on a high-speed corporate...

How to distribute custom checkin policies and work item controls using the power tools

March 28, 2011 Mar 28, 2011 03/28/11

Buck Hodges

Custom checkin policies and custom work item controls are great ways to take advantage of the extensibility of TFS. You can use checkin policies to enforce certain standards on checkins (even in your builds). Custom work item controls allow you to add controls to your work item forms that present data in particular way, access...

Moving work item description fields to HTML

March 23, 2011 Mar 23, 2011 03/23/11

Buck Hodges

Neno’s been blogging a lot this month, and many of his posts have helpful tools associated with them. The post below caught my eye as particularly useful. We’ll be using HTML fields more going forward, and he has a tool to help you move your existing work items to use an HTML field for the Description. Enriching your ...

VS 2010 SP1 crashes when viewing build on a TFS 2008 server

March 23, 2011 Mar 23, 2011 03/23/11

Buck Hodges

Unfortunately, we introduced a regression into Visual Studio 2010 SP1 in the process of fixing a performance issue in the build details view that a number of customers had reported (viewing the log was really slow for larger builds). We made this change late in SP1. I apologize for the inconvenience. I want to make sure you know about that ...

Managing TFS 2010: How to clean up test attachment data

March 18, 2011 Mar 18, 2011 03/18/11

Buck Hodges

Test attachment data generated by the new testing features in VS 2010 can add a large amount of data to your TFS server. In fact, we discovered on our own “dogfood” server that test data was taking up more space than the version control data. You can read more about it in Grant’s post here.You can use the Test ...

Visual Studio setup projects (vdproj) will not ship with future versions of VS

March 17, 2011 Mar 17, 2011 03/17/11

Buck Hodges

[UPDATE 04/18/14] The Visual Studio team has released an extension to VS 2013 to address the feedback on this, which has been loud and clear for a long time now: Visual Studio Installer Projects Extension. [UPDATE 11/6/12] Fixed broken links. At the user group meeting last night, someone asked about the future of WiX. There was some ...

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