What should be contained in a global source code control ignore pattern for Visual Studio 2010?

Question

After installing and using Visual Studio 2010, I\'m seeing some newer file types (at least with C++ projects ... don\'t know about the other types) as compared to 2008. e.g

Answer 1

For C++ projects, you should be fine ignoring the following files:

• *.sdf and *.opensdf (temporary file opened only while .vcxproj/.sln is loaded to Visual Studio IDE)
• *.suo
• *.vcxproj.user
• ipch folder, if your project uses Pre-compiled Headers (PCH); it is a storage for Intellisense compiler which can now utilise PCH for better performance

For C# projects, it's also a good idea to ignore bin and obj directories, and *.suo too.