Use this dialog box to check out solutions, projects, or individual items from source control. Items marked with a check mark in the Items box are checked out from the source control server.
Checking out an item copies the current version of the item from the source control server to your local machine. This action also locks the item on the source control server, so that the item is read-only (unless your source control is configured to do multiple checkouts).
Displays a list of the items based on your current selection in the Project Explorer (in the development environment). Select the box next to the items you wish to check out from source control and a check mark will appear next to the item. You can click Check All to select all of the items at once.
This box displays the first level of folders and contents to which you can apply these operations. To see additional items contained within subfolders, click Recurse. Items contained within a subfolder are not checked out from source control unless they are displayed individually in the Items box and selected with a check mark.
Forces items to be displayed in subfolders in the Items box. You can then select these items for source control actions.
By default, the Items box displays only the first level of items contained in the Project Explorer for the development environment. Clicking Recurse displays all of the subfolders and all of their items for any remaining levels of depth in the directory tree, as shown in the Project Explorer. You can then select additional items for actions in source control.
Suppresses any more instances of the Check Out Items dialog box. Check Out From Source Control becomes a direct command on the environment menus. You will not be able to add comments or use advanced options until you enable this dialog box again.
You can enable this dialog box again by changing the options listed in the Source Control page (on the Tools menu, click Options, and then expand the Environment node and click the Source Control node).
Provides a place to enter comments. If your source control program is Microsoft® Visual SourceSafe™, you can type up to 4,095 characters.
Selects with a check mark all of the items visible in the Items box. To see additional subfolders and levels of items, click Recurse. Only items that are visible in the Items box and are shown with a check mark are checked out from source control.
Displays more options on adding items to source control. Your source control program supplies these options.