Check In Items Dialog Box

   

Use this dialog box to check in solutions, projects, or individual items from your local machine to the source control server. Items marked with a check mark in the Items box are checked in to the source control server.

Checking in an item copies the current version of the local item you're working on to the source control server. This action also unlocks the item on the source control server, so that the item is available to check out by other people.

Options

Items

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 in to 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 in to source control unless they are displayed individually in the Items box and selected with a check mark.

Recurse

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.

Keep Checked Out

Refreshes the source control server with the latest version of the local items that are selected, but keeps the items checked out to you.

Don't show any more check in dialogs

Suppresses any more instances of the Check In to Source Control dialog box. Check In to 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).

Comment

Provides a place to enter comments. If your source control program is Microsoft® Visual SourceSafe™, you can type up to 4,095 characters.

Check All

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 in to source control.

Advanced

Displays more options on adding items to source control. Your source control program supplies these options.

Differences

Displays a comparison of the selected item version with previous versions of the item. Your source control program supplies these comparisons.