Improve performance of TFS/Visual Studio - use smaller, multiple workspaces

Improve performance of TFS/Visual Studio - use smaller, multiple workspaces

If there are too many mapped files within your TFS workspace, then performance of TFS and Visual Studio becomes extremely poor.
If the file count hits 100,000 then Visual Studio will display a warning - however I found that performance degrades noticeably, before hitting that limit.

Tips:

  • use one workspace per branch
  • if you need to merge between branches -> use a 'merging' workspace for those 2 branches.

 Example: a new 'mergingBranch1and2' workspace, for merging between branches 1 and 2

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