Visual Studio 2017 lock file in solution explorer

Question

I have a C# application, a VS2017 solution with 7 projects.

Is it possible to lock a *.cs file or a project in order to avoid me to do undesired modification?

Answer 1

Your best bet issource control . Using systems like TFS , Git , or Subversion , you can track changes, see who has changed what, roll back to previous states, and in some cases, mark files as read-only. Without source control, marking a file in the file system as read-only is your only real option.

A server is not required for source control. While some solutions do require one, Git and SVN can be entirely local.