July 2007 - Posts

• Nice trick to enforce certain rules on Area Path and Iteration Path

  I have heard this feature request so many times: Requiring at least N levels of nodes for Area Path and Iteration Path fields. Unfortunately we AreaPath and IterationPath can not take any rules and it is a limitation. My program manager Gregg showed me Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2007 9:15 PM by narend | 0 Comments

• Implementing custom validations in work item form

  Recently few asking me about how to implement custom validation rules in a work item form. Our rules in work item form XML is extensive and that covers lots of scenarios . But still it doesn’t meet everyone’s needs and it leaves some holes such as not Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2007 10:51 PM by narend | 0 Comments

• Screen shot capture custom control

  Mathias sent me link to the custom control he built to capture screenshots . He also created a control similar to attachments control with capture button. Looks good! We hope to add it to custom controls codeplex project. I was not able to spend any time Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2007 12:35 AM by narend | 0 Comments