Team development is not as simple as we think. If the project is small and has a very small team to work with, it can be configured as a simple deployment. However, in more advanced scenarios where the project is considerably big, there are teams specific to certain aspects of work and are working together on the same code - base.

For instance, the development team works on the core functionalities, the engineering team works on user logical issues and bugs, the quality assurance team works on testing the product, and finally the release team checks the features and releases. Not only this, the environment that these people use is quite different. The codebase that the development team uses is different from the codebase of the engineering team. Also, the development, staging, and production environments work in parallel. For such scenarios and requirements, TFS needs to maintain multiple codebases for the same solution, where the...