Adding multi-item select control in the Work Item form

Natively, the Work Item forms in Team Project do not support multivalue fields. While there isn't native support for multivalue fields in the Process Template, there is an open source multivalue field control that allows you to achieve exactly this. In this recipe, you'll learn how to set up and use the multivalue field control in an existing Team Project.

Getting ready

Download and install the custom Work Item Control from CodePlex http://witcustomcontrols.codeplex.com. The download includes a web extension and an extension for Visual Studio. The Visual Studio extension needs to be installed on all machines you intend to use the multivalue control from in Visual Studio. You do not need to install this control on machines where you intend to use this control in Web Portal only. You need to be a member of the Project Administrator Group to make these changes.

In this recipe, we'll be extending the Team Global List field set up earlier in...