After working quite long without versioning I am trying to restructure one of my old projects and try to learn how to work with TFS. For the moment I have the following (simplified) structure:
$/Application
$/Application/Main (Branch)
...
$/Application/Main/Source
$/Application/Main/Source/Application
$/Application/Main/Source/SharedBinaries
$/Application/Main/Source/SharedSource
$/Application/Main/Source/SharedSource/Library1
$/Application/Main/Source/SharedSource/Library1/Include
$/Application/Main/Source/SharedSource/Library2
$/Application/Main/Source/SharedSource/Library2/Include
$/Application/Main/Source/Tool1
$/Application/Main/Source/Tool2
...
$/Application/Development (branched from Main)
The sourcecode of Application resides in $/Application/Main/Source/Application while storing binary dependencies such as *.lib and *.dll files in $/Application/Main/Source/SharedBinaries. In $/Application/Main/Source/SharedSource there should be a directory for each used library. Right now these are only 3rd party libs such that they only provide the necessary include files and no sourcecode at all.
Now I want to create a new team project for a common library referred to as ClassLibrary. The Application will use it, but other applications too, such that directly integrating the library would definitely be no good design. Similiar to the app itself we have this hierarchy:
$/ClassLibrary
$/ClassLibrary/Main (Branch)
...
$/ClassLibrary/Main/Source
$/ClassLibrary/Main/Source/ClassLibrary
...
$/ClassLibrary/Development (branched from Main)
My very first attempts was to branch $/ClassLibrary/Main/Source/ClassLibrary to $/Application/Main/Source/SharedSource such that updating the lib, all other projects get the updated version like merging Development to Main however this doesn't work and this is a sign that I have no idea how to structure this right. What is the general approach of handling such shared content and libraries across different team projects boundaries?
Notice: Yes, this question is another version of one I asked yesterday, which I have deleted to completely update this.