How to Add Tags to work Items from within Visual Studio 2013 and TFS 2013?

Question

As yo know Team Foundation 2013 has introduced Tags feature and I have been able to work with it using the web interface of the Team Project. but I was not able to access and set tags for work Items from within Visual Studio 2013. I just can add the Tags column to the query columns.

Is there a way to specify Tags and filter based on them for Work Items from within Visual Studio just like how it works in the web version of TFS?

Answer 1

To use tags in queries and filer data you need the Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RTM installed on premise.

With this release, tagging gets even better. View and edit tags right from Visual Studio, or use them as part of a work item query for both the Contains and Does Not Contains operators (in both Visual Studio and Web Access).

More details can be found here: http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/2014-apr-2-vs

Answer 2

Aram,

Both Visual Studio AND TFS should be upgraded to "Update 2".

After you upgrade both, "Tags" should be available in work items also in Visual Studio.