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Wit-It! – Outlook Add-in for TFS Work Item Alerts

Wit-It! – Outlook Add-in for TFS Work Item Alerts

After a small talk with Guy Burstein he comes up with a Great Idea : use outlook form region to show Work Item from Team System.

Then I remembered that working with Event Email in Team System are so  irritating.

You can customize Event Emails to work with Team System Web Access but then you can’t open the work item in XML (sometimes you may need it)

But then I noticed that not everyone have TSWA and even this sometimes can be irritating(slow, new look), so why not to open a Work Item Form?

It’s fast, familiar or why not have all the options??

Thanks to Guy Burstein now the solution to our problem is HERE!

Wit-It!

Wit-It! allows you to open work items in various ways without customizing team system event subscription.

  1. Window Form – just like you’d see in Team Explorer
  2. XML
  3. Team System Web Access

Wit-It! will automatically detect which emails comes from TFS and will show you the Wit-It! panel.

12/02/09 - Update 1.1 –Web Access Fix

15/02/09 - Update 1.2 – Pass encryption & Update manager

18/02/09 - Update 1.3 – Bug Fix

Download Wit-It! - 1.3 
Subscription Email

  

Open Work Item in Form

Outlook Work Item

 

Settings Window

1.Select TFS using local cache

Use this option when your local machine works with TFS.

Use this option when working with multiply TFS servers.

2.  Manually select TFS - You can set custom connection to TFS

Use this option when working remotely (VPN etc)

Use this option if window user isn’t the TFS user or TFS requires special authorization.

Witit Settings

Download Wit-It! - 1.3 

Posted: Feb 16 2009, 03:43 PM by shair | with 36 comment(s) |
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Ponder .NET said:

If you’re someone who (like me) makes extensive use of Team System’s ability to send emails when work

# February 16, 2009 3:47 PM

David said:

This is awesome, well done.

Have been trying to find something to open work items directly from outlook, looked into coding something up myself but never got past the stand alone WI editor. TSWA just doesn't keep me happy.

For some reason I can't get the settings window to open when I click on the Settings icon.

# February 17, 2009 6:13 AM

Bahadir ARSLAN said:

When i want to run the setup gives the following error:

The required component for interacting with Outlook 2007 is not available. Plase run setup.exe

# February 17, 2009 8:25 AM

shair said:

Hey Bahadir ,

You need Outlook 2007 to work with Wit-It!

# February 17, 2009 1:10 PM

shair said:

Hey David,

Try to reinstall Wit-It!

# February 17, 2009 1:11 PM

Bahadir ARSLAN said:

Hi shair,

I am using Outlook 2007, but still gives the same error.

I tried to reinstall again.

# February 17, 2009 3:08 PM

shair said:

Hey,

Please contact me from the blog area and we will fix it.

# February 17, 2009 7:14 PM

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# February 18, 2009 10:15 AM

Mark said:

How do I get to the Settings page?  I'm getting the "Either access to the database is denied, or the item does not exist" error, and I'm assuming (since I'm a TFS admin) that Wit-It just isn't configured properly.

# February 18, 2009 4:10 PM

shair said:

Hey Mark,

In the right side of the add in there is a small icon with a tool tip saying Settings.

Also I recommend you to download the new version. 1.2

# February 18, 2009 6:59 PM

Shai Raiten said:

Wit-It! 1.4 – New Features If you don’t know what is Wit-It! please read Wit-It! – Outlook Add-in for

# February 24, 2009 10:57 PM

cjw said:

Thanks for this!

# February 27, 2009 8:14 AM

Shai Raiten said:

Wit-It! 1.4 – New Features If you don’t know what is Wit-It! please read Wit-It! – Outlook Add-in for

# February 27, 2009 12:46 PM

Kesims22 said:

The tool looks fantastic, however I am unable to get it to work on my PC. Whenever I select the workitem form link I crash Outlook, and the settings link does not display a settings form on my PC. Any thoughts? The best that I can come up with on the crash is a "Not enough storage is available to process this command" exception.

# March 6, 2009 8:45 PM

Randy Scofield said:

I had v1.2 working on my machine (and loved it), but when I upgraded to 1.3 it stopped working.  I have reinstalled 1.3 and also installed 1.4, and the same thing happens:  Outlook 2007 crashes.  I can't seem to get the Settings to work either.  Any ideas?

# March 9, 2009 7:16 PM

dave said:

Same problem here as Randy Scofield.

After installing 1.4 i had to go back to 1.2.  With 1.4 Outlook crashed with error message like 'invalid parameter'.

In addition I could get open settings.

# March 12, 2009 9:53 PM

bharry's WebLog said:

Integration of Team Foundation Server work items into the Outlook user experience continues to be a popular

# March 17, 2009 8:46 PM

Eyal said:

looks great, but my outlook's performance decreased significantly!

# April 2, 2009 11:53 AM

cjw said:

this looks like a good one. tried Outlook Track-It? Track-It does just that, it TRACKS emails, and reminds you to followup. If you miss any important replies, this one is for you.

# May 3, 2009 1:12 AM

Shuki Yulzary said:

Where Can i find the Setting Windows?!?!

# June 11, 2009 2:06 PM

name said:

So where it to find?,

# June 28, 2009 11:57 AM

klevis said:

This is a great tool. thanks. I was just wondering on how to get the xml file of the email. Meaning, getting the file starting like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>

<WorkItemChangedEvent xmlns:xsi="www.w3.org/.../XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="www.w3.org/.../XMLSchema">

# July 1, 2009 11:16 PM

name said:

Beautiful site,

# July 29, 2009 3:28 PM

name said:

Your Site Is Great!,

# July 29, 2009 7:03 PM

name said:

Real,

# July 29, 2009 10:42 PM

name said:

Best Wishes,

# July 30, 2009 2:04 AM

name said:

It is a very good thing,

# July 30, 2009 5:23 AM

name said:

It is a very good thing,

# July 30, 2009 5:23 AM

Garry said:

I installed version 1.4.  I can see the Wit-It! add-on when I open an email in Outlook 2007.

I clicked on all three buttons, "New Wit", "Email to Wit" and "Attach Email to Wit" and nothing happened.

How can I access the settings form?  I am guessing that the add-in can't connect to my TFS, but I can't find the settings buttons that others are referring to.

Thanks for your help.

# October 13, 2009 7:47 AM

shair said:

Hi,

I'm working on a new version of WitIt, soon it will be released.

Thanks

# October 14, 2009 8:34 AM

Martin said:

Hi Shai,

you said "soon it will be released" a couple of months ago.

Now, we're talking about Outlook and TFS 2010 - the first one works if upgrading from Outlook 2007 (with occasional crashes, though), but not if installing Outlook 2010 from scratch.

So, when can we expect a new _working_ version?

It enhanced my productivity a lot (especially because TFS 2010 doesn't generate standard-compliant HTML-website and hence doesn't work correctly with Firefox 3.x.

Thanks in advance,

Martin

# August 4, 2010 10:31 PM

shair said:

Hi Martin,

Sorry for the delay with the new version, but onces TFS 2010 came out there were some improvements with the Events emails and now you get a direct link of the Work Item , ChangeSet and Build to TFS Web Access.

So, I didn't saw any reason to upgrade my add-in to TFS 2010 or Outlook 2010.

If there is any other improvements you need please let me know and maybe this will be enough to create new version of WitIt!.

Thanks and sorry for the inconvenience.

# August 5, 2010 4:38 PM

Martin Baranski said:

Hi Shai,

this is surely true - Outlook 2010 and TFS 2010 are enhancing my productivity a lot.

However, using Wit-It!, it was just easier to interact with workitems - I didn't need a browser-tab, I just needed Outlook and managed given workitems in one single program.

Additionally, TFS Web Access is still not fully HTML-standard compliant which makes it hard to use with Mozilla Firefox.

Wit-It! helped me here and jumped in to fulfill the role of a excellent replacement for this workflow.

So, if you have the time, I'm begging you from the deepest depth of my soul to create a Wit-It!-version for Outlook 2010 (with that bug I once reported to you fixed, if possible).

Thanks in advance,

Martin

# August 10, 2010 2:47 PM

kosomi said:

where is setting window?

I would like to set up the TFS connection due to error of TFS server connection

# August 17, 2010 4:35 PM

lyptotruptush said:

cappa  

# December 10, 2010 11:15 AM

Kirill said:

I tried to install Wit-it! and receive error "A required component to interacting with Outlook 2007 is not available. Please run setup.exe". I have Office 2010. I found solution here: forums.xiant.com/Topic33-14-1.asp. I downloaded PrimaryInteropAssembly.exe from microsoft site and tried to install but it was not installed, because my office 2010 is 64x but there is no 2007 64....

# March 31, 2011 2:33 PM
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