TFS Project with Multiple Visual Studio Solutions

Question

Our team is looking at using Team Foundation Server v.11 (2012) to manage our projects. We currently do our project management in spread sheets. Our team develops software for i

Answer 1

As you have predicted it:-

OurCompanyLibrary would be a VS Solution.

OurCompanyLibrary.Application1 ... OurCompanyLibrary.ApplicationN would be VS Projects within that solution.

OurCompanyLibrary.ApplicationX.dlls would be references in the OurCompanyIntranet and OurCompanyInternet VS Solutions.

I'm not sure I understand your problem.

An Application VS Project in OurCompanyLibrary would be separately buildable producing its own dll that could then be referenced in the other two solutions. If the problem is having all of the Applications under one VS Team Project (OurCompanyLibrary) then the answer would be to create a separate VS Team Project for each Application - OurCompanyLibrary1 for Application1, OurCompanyLibrary2 for Application2, etc. The development of each Application is then totally self-contained and separate from the others.

If the problem is that you want different portions of the source in different solutions then that is achieved by adding the project to a solution. This does mean that all of those solutions have all of the source code though. We have something similar where I work:- We have a solution that has 2 projects - our common business logic layer and our common data access layer. Each of our other solutions has those projects included. This means we can edit the source code from any solution.

I don't know if any of this will help you, but good luck with it!