Hello,

Is there a way to disable multiple checkout for designer.vb files in source control? I tried adding an extension in the foundation settings but it does not accept multiple periods.

The normal *.vb files can be changed but if more developers have changed an designer.vb file merging can be a very difficult task.

Regards,

Jon van dorsten

Wow, I just tried that and got the same behavior (meaning, it hasn't been fixed in post-v1 code). I'll file a bug for it. It could be solved by writing some code that uses the OM. Here's the snippet of code you would need (I haven't run it, so there might something that needs to be slightly tweaked). Note that you won't be able edit the new type (Designer vb files) in the GUI (you'll get the error you reported).

TeamFoundationServer tfs = new TeamFoundationServer(http://yourtfsserver:8080);
VersionControlServer vcs = (VersionControlServer) tfs.GetService(typeof(VersionControlServer));
FileType[] fileTypes = vsc.GetFileTypes();
FileType[] newFileTypes = new FileType[fileTypes.Length];
Array.CopyTo(fileTypes, newFileTypes, 0, fileTypes.Length);
newFileTypes[fileTypes.Length] = new FileType("Designer vb files", new String[] { "*.designer.vb" });
newFileTypes[fileTypes.Length].AllowMultipleCheckout = false;
vcs.SetFileTypes(newFileTypes);

Buck

The code Buck posted will not work on multiple levels. First, using the string "*.designer.vb" throws the following exception when you call vsc.SetFileTypes:

TF10168: The extension *.designer.vb is not supported. It cannot contain any of the following characters /\\:*?"<>|.

You need to pass "designer.vb".

In any event, the TFS version control server cannot handle extensions in this format properly anyway. The server fails to lock the files on edit automatically. Therefore there is currently no way to get your desired behavior on checkout of *.Designer.vb files. I'll update the bug appropriately.

Ed

http://blogs.msdn.com/edhintz