TFS Power Tools WIT WebLayout Preview and Validation Before Import - visual-studio

I am using the Visual Studio TFS 2017 Power Tools to apply some changes to a few of my organisation's TFS work item templates. As expected, the work item templates have two form layout elements - one for the Visual Studio IDE form and the other for the corresponding Web form.
I've had no issue implementing, previewing and validating the changes specific to the Visual Studio IDE form. However, I'm unable to do similar for the changes that are specific to the Web forms and that makes me rather uneasy, as I'd like to also review and validate my changes before importing them to the Live environment. Is there any way I can achieve this before importing my changes?

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However when I try to add a new custom Toolbox item and choose Tools/Choose Toolbox Items the dialog has no "SSIS Data Flow Items" and "SSIS Contol Flow Items" tabs.
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I consider the missing tabs a symptom of something went wrong, but not insist to see the tabs, if there is any alternative way to add custom component to the SSIS Data Flow toolbox. But the most relaxing would be if the tabs were appeared...
Btw I have two machine with this exactly same symptoms, a 2012 Server and a Win 7 box.
Any help appreciated, thanks in advance.
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2012+ no longer has this requirement. Instead, by virtue of a DLL being correctly built for that specific version of SSIS, "it will just show up" TM
I'm not finding the blog references but there were announcements about the change
"It just works" was already claimed

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validation based on the latest specifications from W3C.
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HTML 5 Intellisense
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I created a validation schema that you're free to use:
http://johndyer.name/post/2009/07/21/HTML5-XHTML5-Validation-Schema-for-Visual-Studio-2008.aspx
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You need to add the file to the folder in VS install, and add to the registry.
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