TFS won't recognise need to perform merge

Question

A colleague and I are working on the same area of code using Visual Studio 2008 and TFS 2005 on the server.

When we both edit the same file concurrently and I check it in first, TFS does not recognise this when he either gets latest version or checks in, meaning his or my changes get overwritten without a painstaking manual merge.

This only seems to be a problem for him.

Any ideas what the problem might be or how we can fix it?

Answer 1

We removed and recreated the workspace and that fixed it. Job done.