.gitignore for Visual Studio Projects and Solutions

Question

Which files should I include in .gitignore when using Git in conjunction with Visual Studio Solutions (.sln) and Projects?

Community Wiki:

#OS junk files
[Tt]humbs.db
*.DS_Store

#Visual Studio files
*.[Oo]bj
*.exe
*.pdb
*.user
*.aps
*.pch
*.vspscc
*.vssscc
*_i.c
*_p.c
*.ncb
*.suo
*.tlb
*.tlh
*.bak
*.[Cc]ache
*.ilk
*.log
*.lib
*.sbr
*.sdf
ipch/
obj/
[Bb]in
[Dd]ebug*/
[Rr]elease*/
Ankh.NoLoad

#Tooling
_ReSharper*/
*.resharper
[Tt]est[Rr]esult*

#Project files
[Bb]uild/

#Subversion files
.svn

# Office Temp Files
~$*

Answer 1

I use the following .gitignore for C# projects. Additional patterns are added as and when they are needed.

[Oo]bj
[Bb]in
*.user
*.suo
*.[Cc]ache
*.bak
*.ncb
*.log 
*.DS_Store
[Tt]humbs.db 
_ReSharper.*
*.resharper
Ankh.NoLoad

Answer 2

Here's an extract from a .gitignore on a recent project I was working on. I've extracted the ones that I believe are related to Visual Studio, including the compilation outputs; it's a cross platform project, so there are various other ignore rules for files produced by other build systems, and I can't guarantee that I separated them out exactly.

*.dll
*.exe
*.exp
*.ilk
*.lib
*.ncb
*.log
*.pdb
*.vcproj.*.user
[Dd]ebug
[Rr]elease

Perhaps this question should be Community Wiki, so we can all edit together one master list with comments about which files should be ignored for which types of project?

Answer 3

Credit to Jens Lehmann for this one - if you keep source directories separate to your compiler project files and build output, you could simplify your .gitignore by negating it:

path/to/build/directory/*
!*.sln
!*.vcproj

You don't say what language(s) you're using, but the above should work for C++ projects.

Answer 4

Here is what I use in my .NET Projects for my .gitignore file.

[Oo]bj/
[Bb]in/
*.suo
*.user
/TestResults
*.vspscc
*.vssscc

This is pretty much an all MS approach, that uses the built in Visual Studio tester, and a project that may have some TFS bindings in there too.