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/

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.

I agree to ignore the NuGet packages folder, but I really think you should check in the repositories.config so NuGet PackageRestore can do it's magic when someone pulls the code and tries to build it...

Add trailing slashes to folders, RS rule comment, remove dupes.

This might be created temporarily during a build.

VS2012 creates UpdateLog2.htm - not needed in git repository

New web deploy file name? vs 2012 added this to my solution and it shouldn't go to an open repo.

Cross platform .NET Dev FTW!

The VisualStudio gitignore file was missing a few useful
settings contained in the CSharp and VB.NET gitignore files.

It is possible to run the project converter multiple times, which would generate new backup-directories (Backup1-Backupn) and logfiles (UpgradeLog2.XML-UpgradeLogn.XML)

Added since RIA/Silverlight projects use this for generated code that doesn't get added into source control.

Added since RIA/Silverlight projects use this for generated code that doesn't get added into source control.

Grouped all VC++ files together. Added new file extensions and folders used by Visual C++ 2010.