Hi,

I am very keen to see the working of custom control. Thanks to Naren for a detailed explanation on how the custom control works. But I am facing issues here. Hope some body helps me here.. I have followed the following steps

1. Unzipped the sample in http://blogs.msdn.com/narend/archive/2006/10/02/How-to-use-Custom-Controls-in-Work-Item-Form.aspx to my working folder

2. Built the sample.

3. Copied the dll and the wicc file to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Team Foundation\Work Item Tracking\Custom Controls and also to C:\Documents and Settings\prash\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Team Foundation\Work Item Tracking\Custom Controls.

4. Now I wit imported the Bug-CustomControl.xml (tried thisfrom my working folder and also from the above mentioned folders after copying the wit xml file.

Now during import it is throwing the following error on the line where the custom control is being created:

"Xml validation error at row 392, column 26: The 'Type' attribute is invalid - The value 'WorkItemIdReference' is invalid according to its datatype 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/workitemtracking/typedef:ValidControlsType' - The Enumeration constraint failed."

Not sure if I have missed something in the process. This is what precisely what it is mentioned in the read me txt also.

Can somebody please help.

Thanks and Regards

Prash

Hi,

Have you already installed the SP1 beta?

Yes, very much

Regards

Prash

Hi Naren,

Thanks for your solution. Finally it worked. Looks great. I am interested in building Popup windows as custom control. They are coming fine, But I am facing some issues in data communication between them. In the sample I have a combo in the popup and when the value of the combo changes I need to populate that value in the main window.. Is this something which is possible..?

I can probably look at the textbox and the popup as part of the same control... Not sure.. Please let me know your opinion.

Regards

Prash

You had wrong dll installed, so how did you get it working finally? What you did to have correct dll? Some other users are having this problem and would like to know how you solved it.

I am not able to understand your question on data communication between popup and main window. It seems like a winforms question rather than custom controls question to me.

Hi,

The new dlls were not installed. There were some issues in the installation of the SP1. I started of onceagain on a clean machine and this time everything went fine. Custom controls started working without any issues...

Regards

Prash