Buck Hodges

How to enable a checkin policy via the version control API

March 1, 2007 Mar 1, 2007 03/1/07

Buck Hodges

I recently needed to test a new checkin policy that I wrote.  In order to do that, I needed to enable a checkin policy for the unit test's team project using the version control API.  I was a little surprised when it wasn't quite as obvious as I had hoped, and I had to poke around in the source to figure it out.  So, I thought I...

Visual Studio 4.0 SDK is now available (includes updates to TFS extensibility documentation)

March 1, 2007 Mar 1, 2007 03/1/07

Buck Hodges

The Visual Studio 4.0 SDK was released today.  Here's the announcement. On behalf of the VS Tools Ecosystem team, we are pleased to announce that after months of hard work, we have completed shipping the VS SDK 4.0 RTM release! We have done tons of work to make this release friendly to developers who are new to Visual Studio ...

Orcas March CTP is available now and includes new Team Foundation Server

February 28, 2007 Feb 28, 2007 02/28/07

Buck Hodges

Here's the announcement.  Please download the TFS Virtual PC image and let us know what you think.  Except for build scheduling, this CTP contains all of the new Team Build features, including continuous integration. We are excited to announce that the Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas” March 2007 CTP is now available ...

Schema for the WorkspaceMapping.xml file

February 28, 2007 Feb 28, 2007 02/28/07

Buck Hodges

The WorkspaceMapping.xml file is one of the files generated when creating a new build type.  Those of you who've had to customize a build are probably familiar with the TfsBuild.proj file, which is the top-level file used to orchestrate the build.The WorkspaceMapping.xml file is used by one of the custom tasks to create the TFS workspace ...

Transcript from the Feb. 7 VSTS MSDN Chat

February 28, 2007 Feb 28, 2007 02/28/07

Buck Hodges

Below are highlights from the Feb. 7 VSTS MSDN Chat (the full transcript is attached to the bottom of this post).  I hadn't participated in one in a quite a while.  We got quite a few questions, and there were lots of folks from the product team on hand to answer the questions.  Keep an eye out for the next one. General...

VSTS Webcasts: Licensing, development, TFS, and more

February 27, 2007 Feb 27, 2007 02/27/07

Buck Hodges

Adam Gallant is putting together a series of webcasts on VSTS topics, including one on licensing (licensing always seems to generate plenty of questions).  The webcasts will occur over the next couple of months.  His post has all of the details. New VSTS WebCasts... more...tags: vsts, visual studio team system, tfs, team foundation...

Jeff Atwood’s Team Foundation Server Event Subscription Tool

February 26, 2007 Feb 26, 2007 02/26/07

Buck Hodges

Jeff has posted a nice GUI for creating event subscriptions.  This tool makes the process less arcane and error prone.  Check it out! Team Foundation Server Event Subscription Tool To set up advanced subscriptions, you needed to use bissubscribe.exe. This is problematic, because the command-line syntax is complicated, and also ...

Team Foundation Power Tools version 1.2 (aka TFS Power Toys)

February 21, 2007 Feb 21, 2007 02/21/07

Buck Hodges

We are happy to announce the release of  version 1.2 of Team Foundation Power Tools (formerly known as Power Toys).  This version includes some bug fixes to previous power tools, support for Vista, and adds the following new functionality: Please note that the Process Template Editor has some additional pre-requisites, ...

Radius: reporting tool from 90 Degree Software

February 8, 2007 Feb 8, 2007 02/8/07

Buck Hodges

Ameya recently wrote about the new Radius tool from 90 Degree Software.  I stumbled across a new Channel 9 video demonstration of it: Radius: What. How. Why.  If you use or are interested in the reporting feature of TFS, this may be helpful. Technorati tags: tfs, team foundation, reporting...

CodePlex: Vote on the features and fixes you’d like to see

February 8, 2007 Feb 8, 2007 02/8/07

Buck Hodges

The CodePlex team has posted about the latest update to CodePlex and encourage you to vote on what you'd like to see in upcoming releases.  CodePlex is uses provides a hosted version of Team Foundation Server. New CodePlex Version! I know this is a few days late, but as of Jan 30th we are running a new version of CodePlex! Some of the ...