I was starting to get concerned about one of my pages loading super slow on when testing it locally. I tried it on IE and it was fine. So it turned out to be an issue with IPv6 and DNS. I found this article that helped me figure it out. Glad it wasn’t my code!! (this time).
Mark Allen
Another approach which works well is to have the XML tag reference a custom TFS group. In my case there is a master contributor group shared between projects so rather than list all the contributor users in the template AssignedTo list boxes I created a TFS group called ‘TeamAssignments’ and within security I referenced the team. Then in the templates I added the tag ListItem value=[project]\TeamAssignments. Now when anyone is added to the team they are displayed in the AssignedTo List box. This also means that another team can be created without changing the templates as the changes can be done in security.
TFS Team Name: Blue (example set up in security)
TFS Group Name: TeamAssignments
Members: Team Blue