Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

Work Item Tracking - Buck Hodges

Outlook 2007 macro to create work item and changeset hyperlinks

June 6, 2007 Jun 6, 2007 06/6/07
Buck Hodges
Richard Berg updated the Outlook macros I posted nearly two years ago to work with Outlook 2007.  These macros will convert the selected number into a hyperlink to that work item or changeset.  I have them hooked up to Alt+W and Alt+C for work items and changesets, respectively. Outlook macro for work item and changeset hyperlinks...

Using an ASP.NET TFS data source

April 25, 2007 Apr 25, 2007 04/25/07
Buck Hodges
Kannan Sundararajan has written a couple of posts on how to use TFS as an ASP.NET data source.  If you are interested in displaying TFS data in ASP.NET-driven web pages, you'll want to check it out. First he shows you how to build the data source and gives you the code that you need to build the dll. TFS Data Source ASP.NET Control ...

TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit pre-release published on CodePlex

April 23, 2007 Apr 23, 2007 04/23/07
Buck Hodges
Matt Mitrik, the program manager for the TFS migration tools, has announced the availability of the first pre-release version of the Team Foundation Server migration and synchronization toolkit.  If you are looking into how to migrate away from a different bug tracking or version control system, this is where you'll want to start.  ...

Web interface now available for TFS: Microsoft acquires TeamPlain

March 26, 2007 Mar 26, 2007 03/26/07
Buck Hodges
We have never had a web interface for Team Foundation Server work item tracking, much to the astonishment of our customers.  Well, there's a fix for that now.  And you can download it today (see below for details). Brian Harry wrote a post this morning about the acquisition of TeamPlain. Microsoft Acquires TeamPlain! Today we are ...

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...

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 ...