Work Item Templates

My findings on creating and customising your own Work Item Templates in TFS 2008

First off - here is some background reading and resources

Tools to capture “Defects”
http://www.techsmith.com/snagit/accessories/teamsystem.asp
http://ozgrant.com/2006/06/17/tfsbugsnapper/

Extending TFS Templates using TFS Power Tools
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/tfs2008/bb980963.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms400654(VS.80).aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/narend/archive/2007/07/31/nice-trick-to-enforce-certain-rules-on-area-path-and-iteration-path.aspx

Enhancing VSTS – Setting up TFS groups and changing the Bug Work Item Template
http://visualstudiomagazine.com/columns/article.aspx?editorialsid=2046

Differences between WIWA and TSWA
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FAED8359-F54D-480E-8A86-F154D3DEA07E&displaylang=en
http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2008/04/09/team-system-web-access-2008-sp1-ctp-and-work-item-web-access-2008-ctp-are-now-available.aspx

After I had created my own custom "Incident" my boss didn't want to use Bug as then he couldn't charge for it! I then wanted to delete the templates we don't use so use the following command

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2008 Power Tools>
tfpt destroywitd