Symbolic links in TFS 2010 Source Control?

Question

As far as I know, Team Foundation Server 2010\'s source control (and prior versions) doesn\'t support linking (Symbolic links) of files.

Linking (per Visual SourceSafe)

Answer 1

This thread is more recent (2010), about TFS 2008 and 2010:

TFS (2008 and 2010) do not have support for links. There is a server-side extension for TFS 2010 (ie. what VS2010 used for gated checkin) but this sounds like a client-side solution since the link must be converted to a file to be recognized by the client OM.

If you only work with the command line, how about a wrapper tool for some version control operations? For example, the check-in wrapper would convert links to a linktext file and add or replace the existing linktext file before doing the normal check-in. The check-out wrapper would check-out the corresponding linktext file. Note that there will be quite a bit of work since you'll have to wrap many commands.