Symbolic links in TFS 2010 Source Control?
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) was the concept of providing one "hard" file in a folder, and then "linking" to it in other locations - exactly like file system hard links are designed.
Does anyone know if files can be linked at all? I realise it is not a good practice in general, but I have some scenarios where it makes sense.
According to an answer in this thread: Linking TFS source control folder from another TFS project it's not possible, but I can't find a definitive answer.
Closest thing I can find courtesy of Google is a thread on the MSDN forum but it's quite old (2006). I'm pretty much assuming that this is still the answer though (unless anyone knows differently)?
Answer
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.