At my previous job all developers had a R:\ drive which contained all the shared assemblies. With a script the assemblies on the drive were kept up to date by copying them from a network share.
NuGet helps to solve this issue. Build your shared code as nuget packages, and then you can use local feeds stored on a network drive or shared server to host your nuget packages. I just saw Teamcity 7 even has native support for hosting nuget feeds now.
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