How can I prevent BIDS from automatically checking out SSIS packages?

Question

I have Visual Studio 2005 (BIDS) set to "Check out automatically" when a file is edited which works well for most file types.

When I access a Data Flow within an SSIS package though, a check out is triggered without me making any changes. When I compare the files, there does not appear to have been any changes made in the background either.

This behaviour is annoying because I lose track of which files I actually made changes to and because I am potentially taking locks on files that I am not interested in editing.

I only found one reference to this problem while researching it on the net but there was unfortunately no solution provided. I can confirm that the problem appears to be related to conditionals (as described in Daniel's post).

I changed from "Check out automatically" to "Prompt for checkout" but was then presented with a series of prompts which I needed to cancel before I could actually view the data flow.

Is there any way that I can prevent these files from being automatically checked out without having to face all of the prompts?

Answer 1

Scott, try Tools - Options - Source Control - Environment and select "Do nothing" option in Editing drop-down.

This option will allow you to view the data flow without prompts, but you'd have manually checkout files before you'd be able edit them. See if it works for you.