Monday, May 23, 2005 - Posts

Team System Work Item Field names

Couple annoying things about Work Item field definition:
  1. Work item name can not contain underscore or other not alpha-numeric characters. Spaces are allowed. Just spent some nice time replacing underscores in Work Item type fields migrated from ClearQuest. CQConverter migration tool did not consider it a problem.
  2. Work item name should be unique. It is probably very logical decision, wich encourage naming consistency. The only problem for now is that I keep bumping into field names predefined by Microsoft (in namespaces like Microsoft.VSTS.Common for example). There is partial list of predefined fields in System namespace in extensibility kit documentation. As far as I know, fields from Microsoft.X namespaces are not documented yet.
posted Monday, May 23, 2005 4:30 PM by leon with 3 Comments