You can’t edit a TFS 2010 build workflow template with just Team Explorer installed

author Richard Fennell calendar Nov 12, 2010 · 1 min read · Uncategorised  ·
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I tried to open a TFS 2010 build template within the Visual Studio shell (the bit that gets installed when you put Team Explorer onto a PC) and saw the error “The document contains errors that must be fixed before the designer can be loaded”.

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At the bottom of the screen it showed that all the underling assemblies could not be found.

The solution is simple, install a ‘real version’ of Visual Studio, I put on Premium. It seems that the shell does not provide all the assemblies that are needed. Once I did this I could edit the XAML with no problems