Team Build with multiple team projects

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I have got the following structure: ``` $ --TeamProject1 ---Solution1.sln ----TestProject1 --TeamProject2 ---Solution2.sln ----TestProject2 ``` In TestProject1, I add TestProject2.dll as reference (Not a project reference, but a file reference). My question is: how to build a solution that reference to assemblies belonging to different team project? I have got TFSBuild.proj file containing the following info: ``` $(TeamBuildRefPath)\.. f.exe ``` ``` $(SolutionRoot) $(SolutionRoot) ``` ```

Accepted Answer

To quote the official TFS guide on CodePlex:

If you share source or binaries across team projects, you have two options:

Branching. With this approach, you branch the source from the other team project into your current solution. This creates a configuration that unifies the source from the shared location and your project on the server-side.

Workspace Mapping. With this approach, you map the source from the other team project into a workspace on your development computer. This creates a configuration that unifies the source from the other team project and your project on the client-side.

Branching is the preferred approach because it stores the dependency relationship on the source control server. Workspace mapping is a client-side-only approach, which means that you and every developer must create the mapping on your own computers and also on the build server in order to successfully build the application.

Branching adds additional merge overhead but it enables you to make the decision to pick up updated binaries or source more explicitly.

Team Build with multiple team projects

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