TFS auto-checkout before checkin

Question

Does a feature like \"TFS auto-checkout before checkin\" exist, so that I don\'t checkout any file until the moment I say \"checkin\", e.g. in case I only change files tempo

Answer 1

These answers are fine assuming you always work in Visual Studio. But imagine the scenario of editing a bunch of files outside of Visual Studio and you want to use Windows Explorer TFS powertools to automatically checkout files which were just modified. Well, there is no automatic checkout. What I ended up doing was to sort the files by the "Date Modified" column and then individual selecting the modified files only. You can't select any files which might be added, as the TFS power tool Windows extension will grey out the "Check Out for Edit.." The other frustration is that TFS power tools doesn't have a file icon to differentiate if a file is currently checkout or simply not yet added to TFS. Basically, TFS is terrible working with more than file at a time unless you are exclusively working within VS, but who does that.

SVN kicks TFS when it comes to this type of scenario.