Can I migrate custom fields, work item templates, and workflows from VS 2010 to VS 2012?

Question

Looking in to upgrading from Visual Studio/TFS 2010 to 2012 when released, however, we have many custom fields, modified work item templates and workflows.  Will this data migrate easily with the install or will everything need to be recreated?  It seems like it should, but I can't find explicit documentation anywhere. 

Answer 1

Hi scook217,

Welcome to the MSDN forum.

You question is too general for us to answer because you haven't post your projects type and something else.

But for Visual Studio 2012 RC Compatibility issue, you can refer to this page 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh266747(v=vs.110)

You will found that most of your questions have been answered on that page.

Thanks,

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Barry Wang [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 2

Unfortunately, this doesn't really give me the information I need.  This only refers to a side-by-side install for Visual C++ projects.  Here is my situation:

1. We have added several custom fields to bug, task, and user story work items.  Based on my research online, the field mappings may need to be exported from 2010 and imported to 2012.

2. We have separate custom workflows for bugs, tasks, and user stories based on state, which includes multiple custom state values.  These are not global workflows and I don't think they are custom process templates either.  I have been unable to identify whether we should expect these to migrate with the install, require some time of export/import like above, or need to be completely redone.  Where can I find documentation on this?

Answer 3

Hi scook217,

Thank you for your post.

I think add new customize work item field, workflow, after upgrade TFS2010 to TFS2012, it can be used as usual. For customer work item controls, upgrade to TFS2012, you may need to re-write them.

Regards,

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Lily Wu [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 4

Lily - Is this documented somewhere?

Answer 5

scook,

Here are some official articles for you to refer:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2012/03/06/get-your-agile-project-fixed-after-an-upgrade-from-tfs2010-to-tfs11-beta.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckh/archive/2012/06/01/use-the-wizard-to-upgrade-team-projects-in-tfs-2012.aspx