All files are marked as read only after check in to TFS from Visual Studio 2012

Question

I have a solution with two projects. I just marked the solution and checked it in and now all files have that little image of blue padlock on the left side which obviously means

Answer 1

this is quite normal, having locks to the files. However, you can set the level of source control of different check in / check out strategies.

link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181237(v=vs.90).aspx

For the global documentation :

1. Source control : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/ms181368.aspx
2. Tfs global : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh529827(v=vs.110).aspx