After creating a new area or iteration, the new item does not appear in the area drop down used when creating a new work item in Visual Studio.
- I verified this behavior (create an area, but it is not visible at the work item level) is reproducible from Visual Studio, Excel and MS Project.
- I deleted my local cache (C:\Documents and Settings\<userid>\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Team Foundation\1.0\Cache), re-started Visual Studio, but no dice.
- When I expand the dimensions in the TFSWarehouse, the new area appears as a dimension.
After some time (3 to 4 hours), the areas and iterations become available and are visible from the work item view.
Why are areas and iterations not immediately available Some fun facts about our tfs server.
- the server is in a single server configuration (application and data tier) on the same machine
- I recently moved the tfs server from serverA to serverB. All other features seem to be working correctly.
- TFS server has SP1 applied, and my workstation has VS 2005 Team Suite with SP1 applied.
This is really annoying because I don't have a work-around other than just to wait for some time.