Can TFS Pending Changes show files that are truly changed like SourceGear Vault?

Question

I have been using SourceGear vault for some personal projects and Team Foundation Server for work projects. One thing TFS is missing is a simple feature that Vault has on its ch

Answer 1

I don't like answering my own questions, but it looks like there might not be a real Microsoft solution out there. For me, this is how I handle the problem at the office using Visual Studio.

1. Before I re-generate the business objects, I make a copy of the entire folder structure
2. I check out the entire project or the root generated folder
3. I start the code generator. Sometimes, I know exactly what is changing, but other times, I might make a lot of changes and I don't want to miss anything. My code generator at work also generates all the SQL files needed to DROP / CREATE stored procedures.
   
4. Using SourceGear DiffMerge, I compare the folders of the just generated and the previously backed up folder.

This is pretty time consuming. I never thought of it as a problem until I saw Vault identifying that a file was different on disk from the repository.

Maybe you all can say how you do code generation / regeneration when working with a source control repository.