Buck Hodges

TFS shipped one year ago today!

March 17, 2007 Mar 17, 2007 03/17/07

Buck Hodges

As Jeff Beehler points out, we shipped TFS one year ago today.  In the intervening time, we reorganized and completed the TFS development work on Orcas (minus a few design change requests (DCRs)), which you can try out in the March Orcas CTP (since it's based on TFS code from January, not everything is in there, such as build scheduling...

Orcas Team Build: WCF web services replace .NET remoting

March 16, 2007 Mar 16, 2007 03/16/07

Buck Hodges

In Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2005 (v1), the communication from the application tier (AT) to the build computer used .NET remoting.  This was the only component in Team Foundation Server that used .NET remoting, as all other communication used web services (see Team Foundation Server Security Architecture). As part of the...

New add-in: Viewing other users’ pending changes from within Visual Studio

March 14, 2007 Mar 14, 2007 03/14/07

Buck Hodges

Fairly often, someone asks for the ability to see the pending changes in the system from within Visual Studio.  Running "tf status /user:* $/ /r" (or whatever you want) just isn't appealing to everyone. Ognjen Bajic posted about Ekobit's new free VS add-in that will allow you to view the pending changes in the system from within Visual ...

Channel 9 interview and demo of Orcas Team Build

March 14, 2007 Mar 14, 2007 03/14/07

Buck Hodges

The interview, which contains a demo, has finally been posted (you may remember it being mentioned in December).  I'd like to say thanks to Brian Keller for doing this! Continuous Integration with Team Build “Orcas” Jim Lamb and Buck Hodges on the Team Foundation Server team show off the new Continuous Integration support ...

Accessing Team Foundation version control from Ant and Java-based CruiseControl

March 12, 2007 Mar 12, 2007 03/12/07

Buck Hodges

Martin Woodward of Team[rise announced the Ant and Java-based CruiseControl support for Team Foundation version control in his post on the release of Teamprise 2.1.  There's lots of good stuff in there, but this stuck out at me in particular.  If you are using TFS and Java, this is a great addition.  They've ...

Configuring the build to use the version control proxy

March 7, 2007 Mar 7, 2007 03/7/07

Buck Hodges

If you have a version control proxy at a remote site and you wish to have Team Build use the version control proxy, you'll need to modify the registry of the account that's running the build service on the build computer.  Here's what you'll need to put into the registry.  You'll need to change "someproxy" to your proxy's name. ...

I’m in Redmond

March 4, 2007 Mar 4, 2007 03/4/07

Buck Hodges

I don't travel much.  It's been almost exactly a year since I was in Redmond.  In March 2006, Ed Hintz and I gave a presentation on version control.This time Jim Lamb and I are here to learn about some of the internal build systems as part of our planning for the future.  Well, Jim's here to party with the PMs as well.  I ...

TFS Workspaces: 2005 and Orcas

March 4, 2007 Mar 4, 2007 03/4/07

Buck Hodges

Martin Woodward has done a great job explaining workspaces  and working folder mappings in a pair of recent posts.  For those who are new to TFS or haven't taken the time to think about the concepts and uses, it's a good idea to read them. While his posts apply to both Team Foundation Server 2005 and Orcas, version control adds ...

TFS migration toolkit spec posted

March 4, 2007 Mar 4, 2007 03/4/07

Buck Hodges

The Team Foundation Server migration toolkit spec has been published.  Particularly if you are interested in writing version control or work item tracking conversion tools, be sure to check it out and give them feedback.tags: tfs, team foundation, migration, version control, work item tracking...

Eric Lee’s Orcas Team Build Screencasts

March 2, 2007 Mar 2, 2007 03/2/07

Buck Hodges

Eric Lee of Counterpunch Software (former Softie) has started posting about Orcas features in the March CTP.First, he goes through a list of new features with some screenshots. A Baker's Dozen of New Features in Orcas There is nothing like having a new version of Visual Studio to play around with :) Not that Visual Studio 2005 is all that old...