Home/ Questions/Q 909853
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-15T16:57:00+00:00

Sometimes on the right side of any Visual Studio tab there will be a

  • 0

Sometimes on the right side of any Visual Studio tab there will be a little padlock symbol. What is it?

I thought it was something like source-control, but my solution is not checked in source-control.

EDIT: Thank you for your answers so far, BUT I can edit the files.
When I am in debug mode it has also this padlock sign, but when I am holding my mouse over the tab I can read “Read-Only”.
Not in debug-mode (normal edit mode, nothing running), there is also the padlock symbol. But when I hold my mouse over the tab there is no readonly text.

Is there an other definition of the padlock sign? Or how can I see the padlock sign while editing my normal source code (and no debugging running)?

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    It indicates that the file is read-only.

    • 0