How to tell who has something checked out from VS

danroot · Post by **danroot** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 11:36 am

We are using Vault 3.5. When a user has something checked out, Visual Studio displays an icon with a user next to it, with a tooltip saying "Checked out exclusively by someone else or in another place." Ideally, this tooltip would include the name of the user who has the item checked out.

The only place I can find to get this information is by launching the "full" Vault GUI client, logging in to the server, and browsing to the file in question.

Is there a better way that I'm missing to get this information from within Visual Studio, without having to launch the Vault GUI?

Is this something that is improved in later versions of Vault?

Beth · Post by **Beth** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 4:05 pm

I don't believe there is a way to see that. It's a good idea though, so I can log it as a feature request.

Post by **jclausius** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 3:23 pm

Try invoking the Source Control properties from within Visual Studio. There is a tab, which will list *all* users who may have the file locked for editing.

danroot · Post by **danroot** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:50 pm

That was more or less what I was looking for. It would be nice to have it show in the tooltip, but this works for now. Thanks