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Matt Burland
Matt Burland

Reputation: 45135

Visual Studio Work Item Preview

In VS 2017 with TFS, I used to be able to go to my list of bug and click on one, and it would show in the lower half of the screen (I could double click and it would open in another tab). But that has suddenly stopped working since we just upgraded TFS.

I can restore the open in a tab function under Tools -> Options -> Work Items -> Open work items in and then select "Visual Studio (compatibility mode)", but I can restore the ability to see the ticket in the lower half of the same bug list like I had before.

Is there any way to restore this functionality? For one particular project it is really important to have the bugs and the solution in the same place. Switching back and forth from a browser and VS is really inconvenient.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1026

Answers (1)

PatrickLu-MSFT
PatrickLu-MSFT

Reputation: 51093

According to your description, most likely you are using the new work item form which released since TFS2017.

If you use the new work item tracking with Visual Studio 2017, you may have noticed that work items now open in a browser window by default. This change to how you interact with work items allows us to provide you with a number of benefits. Details please refer：Work items now open in the web from Visual Studio ’15’

You could also set your preferred way of opening work items using the settings available at Tools -> Options -> Work Items-> Visual Studio (compatibility mode) as you have done. However that's not a recommend way, and you may get the different output either the worktiem fields or the window like you had before.

For example, new work item customization options such as checkbox features, as well as the new work item form layouts that were introduced in Visual Studio Team Services may not be available in the work item controls available in the current release of Visual Studio's Controls library.

To ensure compatibility with the new process customization capabilities, new controls and the new Work item form options, just you keep Visual Studio open work items in the browser.

If you insist on using the previews way, you could try to switch back to the old form once your admin has enabled opt-in to support switch back. Then check if the layout in Visual Studio also restored back.

Upvotes: 1

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