Question

I have a project which is under source control using TFS. Actually, I have 2 solution in one TFS Collection. suppose the first solution is called SolutionA, while the second SolutionB. Each solution has it’s own project in TFS. Now the problem I have is that, one of SolutionB’s project should reference an assembly which is build in SolutionA. So what’s best practices to achieve this?

Thanks

Answer 1

There are a couple of options.

1. If the same team manages both solutions, I would highly recommend just putting them both in the same team project, Or just sharing the same source repository between both projects.
2. If they are managed by different teams, it might make sense to just give solution b a binary copy of solution a, and update it when a does a release.
3. If neither of those work, you could add a custom msbuild script in solution b which will get the latest version of solution a from source and build it, before building b. Something like this

My personal opinion is that team projects tend to get over used. I like to just have one team project per team and put all code in the repository there.