---
title: "Get latest version on checkout with team system source control"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/6/19/get-latest-version-on-checkout-with-team-system-source-contr.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/6/19/get-latest-version-on-checkout-with-team-system-source-contr.html"
published: "2007-06-19T12:50:03"
updated: "2007-06-19T12:50:03"
tags: ["Cool Tools", "General Software Devel...", "Team System"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "The TFS team over at Sela , spearheaded by Tal Gur Arie, had developed a little addin that solves the issue with not getting the latest version of a source file when checking it out. They have their reasons for doing it…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Get latest version on checkout with team system source control

By Roy Osherove June 19, 2007 In [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools), [General Software Devel...](https://osherove.com/blog/category/general-software-devel), [Team System](https://osherove.com/blog/category/team-system)

**Historical article** · Originally published June 19, 2007; technical details may be outdated.

The TFS team over at [Sela](http://www.sela.co.il/) , spearheaded by Tal Gur Arie,  [had developed a little addin](http://sela.co.il/?CategoryID=975&ArticleID=501&Page=1) that solves the issue with not getting the latest version of a source file when checking it out. They [have their reasons for doing it](http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2005/08/20/454140.aspx), and there are a couple [other](http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/srlteam/archive/2007/03/24/TFS-GetLatest-version-on-check_2D00_out-Add_2D00_In.aspx) Addins that do this, but this is the only one i know that asks the user if they actually want this to happen:

> "How does it work? When a user checks out files, the Add-in checks if the file version is the latest, if not - a popup message notifies the user that the current file is out of date and if enquires whether he/she would like to perform a "get last version" action. If the user selects _Yes_ the Add-in will perform get last version automatically. "
>
> [More information here](http://sela.co.il/?CategoryID=975&ArticleID=501&Page=1)

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