Available Control Types for Work Item fields

Hi Marcel,
Thanks for reply, but strictly speaking control types are not documented in "Authoring Work Item Types.doc". In your list you miss at least two types (HTMLFieldControl and ExtendedComboControl) which are not mentioned, so may be there are more.
May be somebody of MS guys could share internal wisdom?

Thanks in advance!

Hi Naren,
Thanks a lot!

I was really joking about SimpleComboBox, but what is the difference between ExtendedComboBox and FieldControl with list of ALLOWEDVALUES ?

Thanks again,
Leon

Hi Naren,

If I understand the Authoring Work Item Types document properly, could you not add your own custom controls by adding elements inside of the ControlTypes element. The document defines ControlTypes as:

ControlTypes

This element must contain one ControlType element for each custom control that is referenced in the Layout section of the form.

This could be used in conjuction with Target of different type other than WinForms to define fields that might not conform to a straight import into TFS. By defining your control type with a proper assembly.control reference, you should be able to put anything into these fields. Am I going down the wrong track? Please explain.

Just for completeness, here is the ControlType explaination from the document:

ControlType

References an external assembly and control within that assembly. Control elements in the Layout that specify a Type attribute must have a corresponding ControlType in the ControlTypes section.

Thanks,
David Maynard