Azure DevOps Connect any version of Visual Studio to Azure DevOps or Team Foundation Server Visual Studio has been around for a long time and there are still people developing in Visual Basic 6 or Visual Studio 2008. Even if you're using a more recent IDE, you could need one or more hotfixes and/or service packs.
Azure DevOps Mimic the XAML build's Output Location option in Build 2015 If you've been using XAML builds in the past, you've probably discovered that, by default, it drops all the outputs of all your projects into one folder called the Binaries Folder. Unless you
Azure DevOps Manipulating your TFVC repository from Build 2015 Though generally considered a bad practice I crafted two build tasks to manipulate your TFVC repository from the build. You can now edit, delete and add files and check those changes in when
Azure DevOps Access multiple TFVC repositories in a Build 2015 definition When you have a TFS project collection with many Team Projects, it's a common practice to have a "shared" project containing a collection of commonly used libraries. This library may consist
Team Foundation Server NDepend 6 offers native integration into TFS 2013 When Patrick Smacchia contacted me a couple of weeks back to look at his new TFS support for NDepend I was very excited. We've integrated NDepend through commandline calls with numerous clients and
TFVC Checkin Policy Ask a developer for confirmation in a TFS checkin policy A TFS checkin policy can normally only be dismissed by overriding the policy. There is no way to selectively allow a user to override one, but not another policy. And there is no
Visual Studio 2012 One of my new favorite plugins for Visual Studio and TFS Today I stumbled upon a new Team Explorer extension for TFS in Visual Studio. It almost immediately made it on my shortlist of things that I need to have on every Visual Studio