Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

Figure 10.1 Large Project Scenario
Figure 10.1 highlights a number of key points about the way in which a large team
project operates:
• Each sub-team maintains its own build server and output builds to a drop point.
• Application teams pick up builds from the component teams, reuse them as part of
their solutions, and include them in their builds.
• Component and integration testing occurs on each build. Bugs are filed in the
appropriate bug database.
Source Control Considerations
If you work on a very large solution requiring many dozens of projects, you may
encounter Visual Studio solution (.sln) scalability limits. For this reason, you should
organize your source control structure by sub-systems or sub-applications and use
multiple solution files. Divide your application into multiple solutions, but do not create a
master solution for the entire application. Figure 10.2 shows the multiple solutions
approach commonly used by large teams.