Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

A tool to find duplicate copies in a build

As part of our builds, quite a few projects copy files to the binaries directory or other locations.  These can be anything from image files to test scripts.  To have our builds complete more quickly, we use the multi-process option (/maxcpucount) of msbuild to build projects in parallel. This all sounds normal, so what’s the ...

How to delete a team project from Team Foundation Service (tfs.visualstudio.com)

[UPDATE 9/13/13] You can now use the web UI to delete a team project. [UPDATE 5/14/13] Updated the URLs and version of VS (used to say preview) The question came up as to how to delete a team project in the Team Foundation Service (TFService).  When I first tried it, it didn’t work.  Then I realized it’s the one case ...

Now on Twitter: tfsbuck

With the build conference last week, I got a Twitter account and started following the comments and responding to questions.  I’m @tfsbuck...

TFS 2010 SP1 Cumulative Update 1 available (again)

Brian posted about the cumulative update for TFS (the TFS SKU, not the client/VS) back in June.  After it was released we learned of a couple of bugs in it, including one where upgrades would not work in certain cases.  Last Thursday, we re-released it with all of the known bugs fixed.  We understand where we went wrong, and we ...

Knowing which thread BackgroundWorker will use for its events

[UPDATE 7/19/2011]  Stephen pointed me to his article covering this and more in February issue of MSDN Magazine, and I recommend it: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg598924.aspx.We hit this recently, so I thought I’d post this email from Chad, a developer on version control, for anyone else who may have missed this ...