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Is there an SVN: equivalent of externals in TFS2005?

Does anyone know if in TFS2005 there is an equivalent of externals: SVN property:

Defining an External SVN Property

It is sometimes useful to create a working copy consisting of several different checks. For example, you might want different subdirectories from different places to the repository, or even from different repositories. Of course, you could manually configure such a script to create the structure of the nested working copy that you are trying to achieve. But if this layout is important for everyone who uses your repository, each other user will have to perform the same validation operations as you.

Subversion provides support for externals definitions. An external definition is the mapping of a local directory to a URL, and possibly a specific revision of a versioned resource.

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TFS 2005 does not have equivalent functionality.

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According to Jeff, this is not possible in 2005, and this is also true for 2008 and for the current beta version of 2010

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Do the TFS2008 Power Tools workspace functions provide the functions you use?

From Brian Harry's Blog :

Create a workspace to solve the following problem. Someone new joins your team and wants to start working on the source code. They need to get all this on their machine, but they are not sure that they need the whole source or, as necessary, set forth. As part of the team definition, you can define a workspace template for your team.

Hope this helps,

Martin.

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No - there is no equivalent functionality inherent in TFS, which, in my opinion, is its condom restriction. However, the feature mentioned by Martin, the “Templating Workspace” implemented in the TFS Power Tools release in October 2008, looks as if it would achieve something similar - unfortunately, this was not when we switched to TFS, which caused us great pain. Let us know if this works for you.

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