When you manage your development projects in Visual Studio Team System using Microsoft Excel do you usually find out that there are work item fields that you need to edit which are not supported in MS Excel by default?
Trying to solve this problem, you can edit the synchronization settings and bring the appropriate fields in the Excel file or you can open the work item editing form in the Visual Studios Team Explorer. Either way you will be switching contexts between MS Excel and Visual Studio more than you would like to. It is not only annoying and clumsy not to be able to do everything in the same tool; it is simply inefficient as well.
Therefore Ekobit has developed a simple Excel Add-In which adds one new button to the Team System integration toolbar in MS Excel. The button is called "Open work item" and that is what it does.
As soon as you place a cursor in a row of some work item, as opposed to an empty row, button will be activated. If you click it, the usual work item editing form will appear so you will be able to edit every last attribute of the work item.
