TFS checkout lock best practices

Question

I\'m having difficulty convincing others in my organization to stop indiscriminately locking files on checkout. Any ideas where I can find an \"official\" document exp

Answer 1

For me exclusive locks have become usefull when I check-in changes in *.sln or *.csproj files. Otherwise problems arrise when concurrent check-ins are performed, since VS appears to cache these files in memory without saving to disk.