Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

Summary of Steps
• Step 1 – Create Local Folders for Your Windows Forms Project
• Step 2 – Create a Blank Solution
• Step 3 – Add a Windows Forms Project to Your Solution
• Step 4 – Add a Control Library (Optional)
• Step 5 – Add a Class Library (Optional)
• Step 6 – Check Your Solution Structure
• Step 7 – Check Your Local Folder Structure
• Step 8 – Add Your Solution to Source Control
Step 1 – Create Local Folders for Your Windows Forms Project
In this step, you create an appropriate local folder structure for your Windows Forms
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 a Windows Forms application, start by explicitly creating a Visual Studio
Solution (.sln) file and then add your Windows Forms project and any supplementary
projects you might need, such as class or control libraries. In the following steps, you
create your solutions beneath a top-level C:\DevProjects directory.
1. On the File menu, point to New and then click Project.
2. Expand Other Project Types and then select Visual Studio Solutions.
3. Select Blank Solution.
4. Name your solution MyApp.
5. Set the Location to C:\DevProjects and then click OK.
This creates a C:\DevProjects\MyApp 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 8.
Step 3 – Add a Windows Forms Project to Your Solution
In this step, you add a new Windows Forms project to your solution.
1. In Solution Explorer, right-click Solution MyApp, point to Add, and then click
New Project….
2. In the Add New Project dialog box, select Visual C# as the project type and
Windows Application as the template.
3. Set the Location to C:\DevProjects\MyApp\Source directory.
4. Name your project as MyWinFormApp.