Create a project in a subfolder in Visual Studio Online (TFS)

Question

Is there any way to create a project in a subfolder in Visual Studio Online using TFVC?

Answer 1

As of now, a TFS Team Project Collection is a flat collection of Team Projects. You cannot organize them in a hierarchy. So you could only depict the hierarchy by naming the Team Projects accordingly.

In a Team Project Source Control tree, you can place many Visual Studio projects and organize them in a folder hierarchy. You can set permissions on specific folders in Version Control if you need to secure some of the projects (though this is not as easy and straightforward as in separate Team Projects).

So maybe it is an alternative to place the projects in a single Team Project and create the hierarchy in source control and areas/iterations. Precondition is are that the projects share the same process; it's also good if they want to share work items or code at least once in a while.

If you want to separate them strictly, you need to create separate Team Projects and do without the hierarchy.