<p>We used to use SourceSafe, and one thing I liked about it was that when you checked out a file, it automatically got you its latest version.</p>

<p>Now we work with Team System 2005, and it doesn't work that way - you have to "get latest version" before you start working on a file that you've checked out.</p>

<p>Is there a way to configure Team System (2005) to automatically get the latest version when checking out a file?</p>

[{'answer_id': 56331, 'author': 'Vaibhav', 'author_id': 380, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/380', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>There\'s a Visual Studio Add-in for this that someone wrote: </p>\n\n<p><a href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/srlteam/archive/2007/03/24/TFS-GetLatest-version-on-check_2D00_out-Add_2D00_In.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/srlteam/archive/2007/03/24/TFS-GetLatest-version-on-check_2D00_out-Add_2D00_In.aspx</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 56465, 'author': 'Jay Bazuzi', 'author_id': 5314, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5314', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Are you sure you want that?</p>\n\n<p>It means that when you check out a file, it will be out of sync with the rest of your files.  Your project may not build or function properly until you update all files.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 57275, 'author': 'Lea Cohen', 'author_id': 278, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/278', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>@Vaibhav: Thanks a lot!</p>\n\n<p>@Jay Bazuzi: I understand what you're saying, but for me it's very important that if a developer is working on a file, it be the lastest version of that file. Otherwise the check in introduces a lot of problems. If for some reason, as a result of the getting latest version, the project doesn't compile, then by all means get the latest version of the whole project. For the way our team works - often check-ins - this is good. If you made changes you want to keep - shelve them.</p>\n"}]
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