Microsoft Test Manager crashes when adding requirement

Having decided to use TFS 2010 as our build system and source control, we decided to use Microsoft's Testing Suite to manage testing given that it is tightly integrated with TFS 2010. I was a tester in a former life and i have to say, I really like the principles behind Microsoft Test Manager and the Testing Center application - it is lightyears ahead of the implementation they used in previous versions of Visual Studio/TFS, however, there is a substancial and somewhat ironic problem: Microsoft's Testing Suite in it's current guise is buggy as hell! It's a great tool but could really have done with some more testing ;)

Anyway, the problem at hand - we had some requirements in our TFS system and we tried linking them to Test Suites created in the Testing Center, every time we tried this, the program bombed out. I did some digging and it looks like we had been using the wrong paradigm - the requirements are expected to be held in User Stories rather than as Tasks. We created a dummy user story, tried attaching it to the suite and it worked first time, yay!

Here is the link that helped me resolve the issue:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/vsmantest/thread/adbd5a30-7e76-4c6b-8bc3-7dbc9362f964

I'm quietly hopeful about this tool - of all the management tools i've used, i really like the concept and structre of Microsoft's offering, but it could really do with some more testing before it's ready to go into the big bad world. Fingers crossed a combination of research and bug fixing will iron out our problems with it