Get Latest Version automático no CheckOut

Olá.

Muitas empresas já estão implantando o Team Foundation Server e, pelo que tenho percebido, as grandes dificuldades são principalmente quanto à diferença de paradigma e cultura, principalmente no que se refere ao Source Control.
Um dos pontos que mais incomodam os desenvolvedores acostumados ao Visual Source Safe é o fato do Visual Studio não pegar automaticamente a última versão do arquivo quando da realização do check out.

Os desenvolvedores do Team Foundation têm argumentos bem sólidos para este comportamento:

It turns out that this is by design, so let me explain the reasoning behind
it. When you perform a get operation to populate your workspace with a set
of files, you are setting yourself up with a consistent snapshot from source
control. Typically, the configuration of source on your system represents
a point in time snapshot of files from the repository that are known to work
together, and therefore is buildable and testable.
As a developer working in
a workspace, you are isolated from the changes being made by other
developers. You control when you want to accept changes from other
developers by performing a get operation as appropriate. Ideally when you
do this, you'll update the entire configuration of source, and not just one or
two files. Why? Because changes in one file typically depend on
corresponding changes to other files, and you need to ensure that you've still
got a consistent snapshot of source that is buildable and testable.
This is
why the checkout operation doesn't perform a get latest on the files being
checked out. Updating that one file being checked out would violate the
consistent snapshot philosophy and could result in a configuration of source
that isn't buildable and testable. As an alternative, Team Foundation
forces users to perform the get latest operation at some point before they
checkin their changes. That's why if you attempt to checkin your changes,
and you don't have the latest copy, you'll be prompted with the resolve
conflicts dialog.

Porém, muitas vezes, eles não têm conseguindo convencer a comunidade muito bem.

Por isso existem algumas iniciativas de confecção de plug-in para o Visual Studio que adicionam o comportamento ao mesmo.

Após instalar e testar alguns, percebemos que o melhor é o TFS GetLatest (http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/files/folders/leon/entry10828.aspx).

O melhor deste plug-in é que, configurados o servidor e a porta do Team Foundation Server, toda a ação de Get Latest Version é transparente quando o usuário realiza algum Check Out.

Abraços e até o próximo post.