How to exclude certain folders from Visual Studio 2012 detected changes list?

Question

In Visual Studio 2012 / Team Explorer / Pending Changes there is a link to list of files with detected changes inside the solution.

How can I make Visual Studio NOT to detect pending changes in _ReSharper.* and Packages folders?

Answer 1

You can manually add a .tfignore file to your solution to ignore specific files, extensions or folders. The items defined in that file will not be considered as a change. If you click on the 'detected changes' you can also ignore items from within Visual studio (by right-clicking a selected item).

In case of resharper you can choose to put the cache files in the system temp folder. That way you don't have to exclude them from source control:

http://www.splatto.net/portfolio/blog/post/2009/06/29/Removing-Resharper-Cache-Directories-in-Project-Solution-Folder.aspx

Update: The above link no longer resolves, but information on configuring your Cache location in ReSharper is available in the Resharper Help Center