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I use integrated source control most of the time.  Whenever I try to edit some code that's not checked out, I'm presented with the “Check Out for Edit” dialog, which is what I would expect.  Another thing I would expect would be a keyboard accelerator for “Check Out” so I don't need to grab my mouse to click that button.  Sadly, this isn't the case.  I think I'm getting tennis elbow because of it.

Please, VS friends, add this tiny “feature” to VS.Next.  Thank you.

Posted: Mar 25 2004, 01:45 PM by jeffreykey | with 6 comment(s)
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Darrell said:

Not tennis elbow, SourceSafe-elbow! It's a debilitating disease which I am sure you can sue Microsoft for.
# March 25, 2004 2:56 PM

Minh T. Nguyen said:

I usually just press tab and then space. Quicker than the mouse at least.
# March 25, 2004 3:18 PM

Doug said:

Why don't you just turn off the dialog?

Tools->Options->Source Control->General
Change "Prompt for check out" to "Check out automatically"
# March 25, 2004 3:22 PM

Drew Marsh said:

I put in a request for this feature back in the days before VS.NET was released. Unfortunately they flagged it "for future consideration" and it has yet to be fixed. :\

I forget if I checked to see if they addressed it in Whidbey.
# March 25, 2004 3:26 PM

Jeff Key said:

Doug: Sometimes VS.NET wants to check out and change things it shouldn't, particularly Windows Forms. I'd tried this before, but it was checking things out, changing them and I'd accidentally check them back in. Not good.
# March 25, 2004 4:09 PM

Michael Teper said:

As a better yet, why not turn on the quiet checkout in the menus. This way, you'll still get prompted when you start editing, but at least you'll have the option to checkout with just a right-click-click via the solution explorer.

I do feel your pain though -- the fact that there is no easy way to get out of that dialog is annoying while the dialog itself is not.
# March 27, 2004 2:52 AM