How to have TFS 2010 detect changes done to files outside of Visual Studio?

Question

I\'m using Team Foundation Server 2010 with Visual Studio 2010.

Whenever I modify a file outside of Visual Studio, TFS doesn\'t seem to detect the change done to the

Answer 1

Try this. It's some sort of workaround, but it works:

1. make changes outside of Visual Studio
2. go to Visual Studio and open Source Control Explorer
3. right click on the folder > "Check Out for Edit" > "Check Out"
4. right click on the same folder > "Undo Pending Changes..." > "Undo changes" > "No to All"

That's it. The changes are visible now.