In TFS if you check out a file it DOESNT check for a newer version of the file in source safe (as it did in Visual Source Safe (VSS)) it was a decision taken by MS to remove this feature to ensure that auto "getting latest" will not brake to the local build. I think MS have received so many complaints about this that in TFS 2008 they are putting it back in. In the mean time I found this project on codeplex http://www.codeplex.com/Tfs... Quick install, give it the TFS server name then when...