Problem with multiple checkouts: Cannot check out <File>. It is binary and is already checked out.

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aycahur@yahoo.com - 29 Jul 2005 20:38 GMT

We have a web project that references couple of other dlls in the
project. When I try to build the solution, I get this error: Cannot
check out <File>. It is binary and is already checked out. An MS site
says that multiple checkouts on dlls are not allowed. Is there a
workaround for this error other than changing the file attributes
manually? I didn't like to check in the dll's in the first place but
it looks like IDE checks them in for web project. I guess it is its
way of tracking the refences. Thanks.

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Scot T Brennecke - 30 Jul 2005 05:31 GMT

In order to support multiple check-outs, it must be able to merge changes from multiple file
updates. There is reasonably reliable logic to make merging possible with text files (like source
code). But what logic could you use to merge changes to binary files? Why do you have multiple
people needing to check out that DLL, anyway?

> We have a web project that references couple of other dlls in the
> project. When I try to build the solution, I get this error: Cannot
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> it looks like IDE checks them in for web project. I guess it is its
> way of tracking the refences. Thanks.

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Ayca - 01 Aug 2005 17:54 GMT

Because IDE tries to checkout the dlls when I try to build the code and
it cannot succeed since it is checked out by somebody else. Then I need
to change the file attributes manually to continue working.

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Problem with multiple checkouts: Cannot check out <File>. It is binary and is already checked out.

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