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Visual Studio 2017 auto generated files
MSTest test Results
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.NET Core
ASP.NET Scaffolding
StyleCop
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Coverlet is a free, cross platform Code Coverage Tool
Visual Studio code coverage results
NCrunch
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DocProject is a documentation generator add-in
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Publish Web Output
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NuGet Packages
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except build/, which is used as an MSBuild target.
Uncomment if necessary however generally it will be regenerated when needed
NuGet v3's project.json files produces more ignorable files
Microsoft Azure Build Output
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Windows Store app package directories and files
Visual Studio cache files
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but keep track of directories ending in .cache
Others
Including strong name files can present a security risk
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RIA/Silverlight projects
Backup & report files from converting an old project file
to a newer Visual Studio version. Backup files are not needed,
because we have git ;-)
SQL Server files
Business Intelligence projects
Microsoft Fakes
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Node.js Tools for Visual Studio
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Visual Studio 6 technical files
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FAKE - F# Make
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Tabs Studio
Telerik's JustMock configuration file
BizTalk build output
OpenCover UI analysis results
Azure Stream Analytics local run output
MSBuild Binary and Structured Log
NVidia Nsight GPU debugger configuration file
MFractors (Xamarin productivity tool) working folder
Local History for Visual Studio
Visual Studio History (VSHistory) files
BeatPulse healthcheck temp database
Backup folder for Package Reference Convert tool in Visual Studio 2017
Ionide (cross platform F# VS Code tools) working folder
Fody - auto-generated XML schema
VS Code files for those working on multiple tools
Local History for Visual Studio Code
Windows Installer files from build outputs
JetBrains Rider
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