Is there a workaround to nest shared steps in the Microsoft Test Manager?

Question

In the MTM/TFS I can create a "shared step" that contains several actual steps. My test cases can then "call" or reuse that shared step, eg:

Test Case:
  <call shared step 1>
  <call shared step 2>
shared step 1:
  do something
  do something else
shared step 2:
  do something
  do something else

We're now facing the problem that we have many similar test cases that consist mostly of calls to shared steps, so we'd like to create a second level of shared steps, ie nested shared steps:

Test Case 1:
  <call shared step level 2>
  perform some action
Test Case 2:
  <call shared step level 2>
  perform another action
shared step level 2:
  <call shared step 1>
  <call shared step 2>
shared step 1:
  do something
  do something else
shared step 2:
  do something
  do something else

The MTM and the TFS won't let me do this via the UI. According to these two posts , it's not currently possible. Does anyone know of a workaround?

Answer 1

There is no way to do this and no workaround.

Raise it as a request on http://visualstudio.uservoice.com