Jean-Luc David

Problems Enabling Process Template IntelliSense in Visual Studio 2005

A couple of days ago, Rob Caron posted about how to author Work Item Types with IntelliSense in Visual Studio. You can download the process template schema files from the following link: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms194967.aspx

Typically, all you need to do is add all the .xsd files into the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Xml\Schemas directory. For some reason, I haven't been able to get IntelliSense to work with the process template xml files. For example:

The only options that are coming up include:

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To troubleshoot the issue, I took a look at Aaron Stebner's blog post on how to configure the Visual Studio 2005 IDE to use custom XSD files for IntelliSense. I still can't get it working, and I suspect the issue is related to the schema namespaces. I found a way to temporarily get around the issue. Follow these steps:

If anyone has additional insight, or has encountered similar problems, feel free to post. If I work out a fix, I'll post it right away.