TFS Structure - Multiple Projects or Single Project?

Question

Our small development shop is looking to migrate our projects from VSS to TFS, and we\'re evaluating TFS vs. others (haven\'t pulled the trigger quite yet). The nature of our s

Answer 1

It is true that to garner all of the benefits of TFS, it is best to use separate projects, but those benefits should be weighed against the administrative overhead associated with managing many projects. Years ago, I used Visual Source Safe...After I left Microsoft, I switched to Subversion. After returning to Microsoft, I am using TFS and so far I am very happy with it.

The process guidance, the reports, the integrated bugtracking, and the tight IDE integration serve my needs perfectly. Plus, the TFS SDK allows for some interesting extensibiilty scenarios.