TFS 2008 checks out code automatically on edit

Question

I am working on a Visual Studio 2008 project that is already added to TFS server. I am not sure which settings and policies have been configured for the TFS (this is done by a separate dept, not developers)

Every time I make an edit to a code file , the file is checked out automatically (without explicitly checking out the code file myself)

Please help me locate this setting or policy because it is not very useful at the moment. Sometime you want to make a local change to try out something, and not necessarily check out the code....

Answer 1

You can make a shelveset of the code allowing you to make a change to the code without affecting the rest of the development.

You can do this by right clicking on the file and selecting shelve pending changes.