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

In my case, the following worked (at least the one time I tried it):

1. Go to the Pending Changes panel
2. Select View Options under either Included or Excluded changes.
3. Switch between Show All and Show Solution Changes
4. Switch back if desired

Changing the View Option appears to force a refresh of modified files.