How to lock files from Team Foundation Server?

Question

I want to find lock files and lock-unlock these files from Team Foundation Server. How can I do that?

Solution 1

If you Check out a file by right clicking on it in Source Control Explorer and selecting Check Out For Edit, you should get three options under Lock Type:

• Unchanged: This allows other users to modify the file and save the changes back to TFS before you have finished with it.
• Check Out: This completely locks the file so that no one else can modify it.
• Check In: This allows other people to modify the file, but prevents them from saving the changes back to TFS until you have finished with the file.

Solution 2

Go to Source Control Explorer, right-click the branch you want to check, find in source control, and then choose status. There you have the option to find checked-out files.

Solution 3

You can use Status Sidekicks tool from TFS Sidekicks toolset to find out all the files which has been locked out. You can unlock them using same tool.