Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

• Workspace Mapping
Branching
In this scenario, you branch the binaries from the common shared location into your team
project. This creates a configuration that unifies the binaries from the shared location and
their project on the server-side.
The difference is that any changes to the binaries, such as new versions are picked up as
part of a merge process between the branches. This makes the decision to pick up
changed shared binaries much more explicit.
For example if you have two team projects named $TeamProject1 and $Common, and
Common contains the shared binaries, you create a branch from the shared location to the
project that references it. The TFS folder structure should resemble the one shown in
Figure 6.5.
Figure 6.5 Branching from Common
Your workspace mapping should resemble the following:
Source Control Folder Local Folder
$/MyTeamProject1/Main C:\MyTeamProject1\Main