Preventing Locks on checkout

Question

hi,

i'm having an issue where a lock type of "checkout" occurs automatically on build of my solution. i have prevented lock's for general developers but because i'm also an admin it still seems to lock these files. This is an issue for me as locking then prevents others changing files in they're workspace. it happens for example on some dll's that have been checked in.

anyone got an ideas as to how i can prevent this kind of checkout locking?

regards

Answer 1

Hi
  

I'm not quite clear about your scenario. Do you mean when Visual Studio build the solution, some dll is automatically checked out? Please describe it in more detail. Well, we normally don't add dll to source control unless in some particular situation. If it's possible, I'd like to suggest you remove dll from source control.

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Answer 2

hi,

Sorry, i wasnt so clear.

yes, your correct, we have DLL's checked in to source control that are updated/rebuilt on compilation.
its not the correct thing to do. i understand that but for now its not something i cannot change. (legacy),  at least not change today.

so when building this project visual studio it will have to check out the dll to rebuild it.

for checking out there's an option if visual studio:
Options - Source control - Environment - "Checked-in Items" - Editing - Check out automatically. (which i have selected)

In this case its a "dll". the default action here by tfs when editing this dll is to check it out, but with a Lock.

I want to change this default behaviour to check out but not lock.

is that a bit clearer???

kind regards.

Answer 3

You can change the autolock settings for DLL files under Team -> TFS Settings -> Source Control File Types.

Answer 4

Where is this setting in VS2010?

THanks, BC