For those of you who use TFS, you know that sometimes source files get checked out in your name even though; to your knowledge; you never actually made any changes or even selected save. If you do not pay attention to the pending checkouts panel you may not notice it until you get a call from your Source Manager or another frustrated or suspicious developer. As it turns out, this is a configurable behaviour and the default is to auto checkout source when either you or Visual Studio edits or saves any files under source control. If you want to change this behaviour; and I suggest you do; just enter open the Visual Studio properties and select the option that best suits your preferred behaviour. See the image below for a sample.
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