title: Unable to ignore files in Visual Studio 2012 using .tfignore file
body: <p>I'm having some problems ignoring files in VS 2012 and was wondering if anyone could help. Essentially what I'm trying to do is ignore the Web.config file from a project in a solution. </p>
  
  <p>I'm aware of the ability to "Exclude" the file but I wanted something a little more robust as I really don't like the way that VS re-includes the files when I right click the solution file and click "Check In".</p>
  
  <p>Here's what I've tried so far:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Made a change to the Web.config</li>
  <li>Team Explorer tab->Excluded Changes->click "Detected" link</li>
  <li>Right click a file->"Ignore this local item" to create .tfignore file*</li>
  <li>Open the .tfignore file and append "*.config". Saved.</li>
  <li>Reopened VS</li>
  <li>Opened Team Explorer tab again->Pending Changes</li>
  <li><p>Web.config still appears in the "Included Changes" list!</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>As explained on <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms245454(v=vs.110).aspx#tfignore" rel="nofollow">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms245454(v=vs.110).aspx#tfignore</a></li>
  </ul></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Visual Studio seems to just completely ignore my .tfignore file. 
  Does anyone have any ideas/workarounds? Cheers.</p>