By Michael Flanakin @ 12:22 PM :: 289 Views :: 1 Comments :: Visual Studio, (Open), Team Foundation Server, (Unreported) :: Digg it!

Team Foundation Server needs to have the ability to ignore files, like CVS (.cvsignore file) and Subversion (svn:ignore directory tag). The concept is simple. When checking in files, unnecessary files should be ignored. Visual Studio does a pretty good job at ignoring some files (i.e. bin and obj directories and .suo and .user files). There are times, however, that this isn't enough. For these cases, you need an ignore capability.

A recent VSTS chat talked about a "cloak" feature. This is new to me and sounds like it would perform the "ignore" I'm looking for. I'm not sure, tho, so I'll have to do some digging. If it is, that's great, but it would've been nice to use a standard naming convention.