Edit Project Without Checking Out

All,

Is there some way to edit the database project file without checking it out (once under Source Control?) The problem I have is that I want to change the deployment location for my own purposes, but don't want to lock down the project file when I am doing this. I am using SourceSafe so I don't think that non-exclusive checkout is possible (or practical.) Even if it does support non-exclusive checkout, I don't know that I would trust its merge feature like I would trust the TFS merge featurel.

Thanks,

dcb99

[544 byte] By [dcb99] at [2008-1-10]

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# 1

Editing the project property page for the target connection / database shouldn't force the edit and checkout of the project as the settings for this property are saved in the users configuration file.

Andrew

AndrewCampbell-MSFT at 2007-10-3 >

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# 2

Every time I change the deployment server, it checks the project out. So, while that sounds good in theory, in practice, the project file is still getting checked out.

dcb99

dcb99 at 2007-10-3 >

# 3

Let me check in to this, our project system is derived from C# and I think this has the same behavior.

I have pinged the person who developed this part for a definitive answer.

-GertD

GertDrapers-MSFT at 2007-10-3 >

# 4

Since the dbproj.user file gets aggregate in to the dbproj file the current behavior is that it does check out the .dbproj file, like you experienced. There is currently now way around this.

Sorry,

-GertD

GertDrapers-MSFT at 2007-10-3 >

# 5

Thank Gert. At least I know to expect this now.

dcb99 at 2007-10-3 >

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