Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

Summary of Steps
• Step 1 – Create Local Folders for Your Web Project
• Step 2 – Create a Blank Solution
• Step 3 – Add a Web Site to Your Solution
• Step 4 – Add a Class Library (Optional)
• Step 5 – Check Your Solution Structure
• Step 6 – Check Your Local Folder Structure
• Step 7 – Add Your Solution to Source Control
Step 1 – Create Local Folders for Your Web Project
In this step, you create an appropriate local folder structure for your Web project on your
development computer. To ensure a consistent approach for your team development, and
to keep team projects well organized on your development computer, you should keep
your entire development source from all of the team projects you are working on grouped
together beneath a single root folder such as C:\DevProjects.
Create a top level folder such as C:\DevProjects.
Step 2 – Create a Blank Solution
To create an ASP.NET Web Application, start by explicitly creating a Visual Studio
Solution (.sln) file and then add your Web site and any supplementary projects you might
need, such as class libraries. In the following steps, you create your solutions beneath a
top level C:\DevProjects folder
1. On the File menu, point to New and then click Project.
2. Expand Other Project Types and select Visual Studio Solutions.
3. Select Blank Solution.
4. Name your solution MyWebAppSln.
5. Set the Location to C:\DevProjects and then click OK.
This creates a C:\DevProjects\MyWebAppSln folder. Visual Studio adds the solution
(.sln) file and solution user options (.suo) file to this folder. Note that only the .sln file is
subsequently added to source control in Step 7.
Step 3 – Add a Web Site to Your Solution
In this step, you add an ASP.NET Web site to your solution. The way you do this varies
slightly depending on whether you are creating a new file system–based Web site that
uses the Visual Studio development Web server or a Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
(HTTP) Web site that uses Internet Information Services (IIS).
File System
To add a file system–based Web project to your solution: