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Workitems are used for tracking work within TFS.

Workitems are used to track work within TFS. They have state and a process for changing state and ownership.

Workitems come in many different types. Work items share several properties: like owner, state, area and iteration; and have type-specific properties: estimated time remaining, number of points, or name of reviewer.

A TFS Team Project is configured with a process template, e.g.: the Agile Process, SCRUM, or CMMI. The process template defines a set of Work item types, the fields and states that the work items can have.

Workitems can be heavily customized to suit the local development process.

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What are the differences among bugs, issues and tasks in TFS

Could anyone give me a short explanation on the differences among bugs, issues, and tasks in TFS?
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Visual Studio: Query TFS Work Items: AND/OR Logic doesn't work?

I need to find TFS work items related to a certain topic in our project. For that purpose, I tried querying the work items using the query builder in Visual Studio. Since there are multiple terms I wish to search for, I imagined a query like…
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Can I modify the default Check-in Action in TFS 2010?

When you associate a changeset with a workitem TFS defaults to resolving the workitem. I want to default to associating it. I know in TFS 2008 you had to remove resolve check-in action using something like this…
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How to copy a work item and its tasks

I would like to make a copy of a work item and all of its task. I'm using this version of the product: 11.0.50727.1 I'm using Scrum 2.0 template for the project If this is possible, how can I do it?
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How to retrieve a list of Changesets (or work items) that were checked-in between builds?

I need a list of changesets (or Work Items) that were made betweend builds (I can label builds if its necessary). I need that list for our test team (and to publish 'changelist'). Is MSBuild task able to retrieve that list and save as file (then I…
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TFS 2010: How to produce a changelog (ie. list of work items) between two releases of the application using labels?

I'm looking for a way to automatically produce a changelog (actually a list of workitems) between two releases of my application. I have two versions of my application, v1 and v2, each is identified by a label in TFS 2010 (LABEL1 and LABEL2) that I…
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How to add work item to commit in new git experience interface in new Visual Studio 2019

Quick Question for Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.8.3, How do you connect the work item to the commit in the new git changes tab? I am having a really hard time using this new git experience thing. I can see my work item in team explorer but no idea…
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TFS Execute Custom Code on a Work Item Transition

I'd like TFS 2010 to run a bit of custom code whenever a particular workflow transition happens. Is that possible? I've found documentation about Custom Actions, which seem to be actions that can automatically trigger work item transitions (am I…
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TFS - Is it possible to link a shelve to a work item? Automatically? (And more)

Hmm I think the question itself is pretty straight-forward... In Team Foundation 2010, is it possible to link a shelveset to a work item in some way ? If so, is it possible to automatically create this link when the developer shelves and associates…
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Can't edit newly added work item field

I am trying to add a new string field (IterationCompleted) to the bug work item in tfs2010. Using the TFS 2010 power tools I edited the work item adding the new field. This results in the following XML
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How to use LIMIT keyword as using in ms sql by WIQL to query TFS workItem

I'm working on TFS API, I don't know that TFS API have any things like LIMIT keyword or no.I need it for paging. Thanks
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Programatically forcing field values for a TFS WorkItem

I am writing a utility to read all the defects out of a legacy bug tracking system, and import them into TFS (2008/2010). I am using the TFS API to create new WorkItems, set their fields, and then save them. However I am unable to modify the…
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TFS "Copy" value from one field to another

I needed to change a work item field from PlainText -> String. As I could not change the type on the Work Item, creating a new field and updating it's value from the other field is my approach. I have tried the "Bulk Edit Selected Work Items.."…
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How to create a new field using IterationPath as data source

We want to extend the bug work item template with a new field called Found In Iteration. This field, what a surprise, should contains the iteration the bug was found in. But when I created the new field of type TreePath, I got an error when…
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Visual Studio Queries open in Browser instead of inside Visual Studio

In Visual Studio 2017 When I am clicking on a Query it opens in a browser instead of opening (like it used to) inside visual studio How can I change this to be opened in visual studio?
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