ASP.net 5 wwwroot source control (TFS) ignore compiled TS Files

Question

I have my grunt file building the TS files and placing them in to the wwwroot folder. TFS/VS Keeps thinking that they are new files and adding them to the pending changes.

How do I make is so this is not happen. I only want the TS file in source control.

Update: I have tried using .tfignore file

# Ignore all files in the wwwroot sub-folder
\wwwroot\

Answer 1

TL;DR

If you want to do front-end dev in Visual Studio 2015, don't use the ASP.NET 5 project template. Use the ASP.NET 4.5.2 Empty Web Project template. NPM, Bower, Gulp, Task Runner all work there too. Just add the appropriate config files through the New Item dialog (NPM Configuration File, Bower Configuration File, etc.).

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Though ASP.NET 5 was released with Visual Studio, it is still very much beta. That doesn't only apply to the server-side features. The VS project type is also not ready for prime-time. The project properties are very limited in the UI. You can't choose to exclude items from the project. package.config exclusions don't appear to affect anything. VS doesn't behave with TFS on these projects and performs a TFS ADD on any generated file. This means that if I don't manually fiddle with TFS changes, eventually gulp builds will fail because it will want to make changes which TFS will block (e.g. delete when there is already a pending change).

All in all, the ASP.NET 5 project type is not full baked just yet. Fortunately, the only thing it really provides over the 4.5.2 project (that I've noticed) for the front-end developer is the Dependencies node in the project tree. That has some utility, but is not worth the cost currently. Instead, I installed the Visual Studio Command Line extension, which makes it convenient to run bower and npm commands as needed. I had to do this anyway for tsd (TypeScript definitions) since it doesn't have a GUI, intellisense, or bindings for its config file.