"Releases" directory is created by Shimmer/Squirrel installer for example. It also should be ignored.

Without the asterisk at the end of the directory's path, an exception for
a file within this directory does not work.
(ex. !packages/repositories.config)

This reverts commit 0fb0fbef.

This was ignoring .ncrunchproject and .ncrunchsolution files.
NCrunch recommend that both of these files are checked in to source control.

Submitting this for consideration.

The first thing that I do on every new project is to go in and uncomment the packages folder. With the prevalence of NuGet and prominence of its use in the Visual Studio environment, along with how well package restore *just works* now, I believe this should be the default.

While I understand that package restore isn't on by default, I would argue that the types of developers using NuGet _and_ a distributed SCM are the types of developers that would omit the binaries from source control.

This commit Makes VisualStudio.gitignore ignore the three items below. It needs when you create an ATL Project.

* [Dd]ebugPS/
* [Rr]eleasePS/
* dlldata.c

web deploy settings include unencrypted passwords

I have no idea what this is doing here, totally unrelated to Visual Studio. There is a special OSX gitignore file that you can use.

* Ignore Azure publish *.azurePubxml files
* Add a trailing slash to csx
* Remove random whitespace after build output

Ignores generated Fakes assemblies and related files placed under the FakesAssemblies directory.
These files are generated at build time from the *.fakes configuration files.

WCF tracing files (.svclog) are used by the Service Trace Viewer Tool.

Files ending in .dbproj.schemaview contain state persistence settings
for the Schema View utility within Visual Studio.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3937160/in-the-new-visual-studio-2010-sql-server-project-type-what-is-the-dbproj-schem
http://foocompelsyou.wordpress.com/2012/05/06/visual-studio-2010-database-projects-why-use-them/

Ignores the compiled typescript files that chutzpah creates. Alot of files are created, so ignoring them have an high impact on repository health.

Some tools like TeamCity depend on repositories.config being checked-in under `packages/` for the restore to work.

Added DebugPublic of Matrox DSK

Store apps (or at least the Javascript ones) build to a "bld" directory.

Although "debug" and "release" are ignored, any custom build Configuration (created through configuration manager) will be added, unless we ignore the whole bld dir.

Added exclusions for mightymoose testing plugin www.continuoustests.com

TFS 2012 creates a $tf folder for local workspaces

Updated to exclude *.publishsettings

Exclude folders created by the TeamCity VS plugin.

Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone seems to generate .cachefile files.

If you use package restore, you actually don't want this file
included. It's not needed. It's only needed if you version
packages. AKA, you only need this file if you are not ignoring
the "packages" folder.