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Thursday, August 06, 2009

Visual Studio 2005 Getting Latest while checking out... Feature or Bug !!!

Grrr...
Is this a FEATURE or an annoying aspect in VS 2005...???!!!

Visual SourceSafe and all the similar products are made for managing the "versioning" of files so that the whole team of developers can keep track of the latest versions of the files while they're working in a team...

In Visual Studio 2005, when a developer checks out a file to work on, the VS does not get latest for this file, but it just gives him/her access to modify it by flipping the right access from read only to read/write access. How about if some other colleague changed the contents of this file... If so, then one would have to merge the files when he/she's done... THAT is not a good version control system... One should always get access to modify a latest version of the file. Ain't I right???

I searched online to fix this issue and found this post (http://sela.co.il/?CategoryID=975&ArticleID=501&Page=1) which "says" it has the solution...

I hope it works for you... Let me know if it doesn't and if you've got other solutions to this problem... I hope you'd tell me about it too :)))

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