What is the “storage.ide” file beneath my Visual Studio solution folder, and what is “persistent storage”?

Everything in the .vs folder should be excluded from your source repository. It is a folder created by Visual Studio for storing user specific information. Previously there was a .suo file which held this data.The change came from a UserVoice suggestion.

Additionally, there’s a very useful GitHub repo that has common .gitignore files for various project types and you will see that the Visual Studio version completely excludes this folder too.

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