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

Open Source Control and go to your TFS folder. Right-click on the folder and choose 'Compare'.

Notice that your edited files show up marked in red.

I find this is better than tfpt online which also gets you files that are not readonly and not edited.