Question

Previously my installation of Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 wre both opening WIQ files correctly – connecting to TFS and wunning the TFS Query. Now both are opening the WIQ file as plain XML.

Of course, I could reinstall Visual Studio to fix the problem.

But I am looking for tips toward a faster work-around. Has someone encountered this problem before? If so how did you fix it?

Answer 1

This should do it:

• File -> Open -> Open file
• Browse to the WIQ file
• Click the right hand end of the “Open” button (on the down-arrow)
• A menu appears – choose “Open with…”
• Choose this and a dialog appears
• Select the editor you wish to use (e.g. XML)
• Click “Set as default” so that this will be uised for any “Open” of a WIQ in future.
• OK.

(Of course, it might not work if the VSTS WIQ editor isn’t connected in to this system)