Teamcity - which external diff viewer

Question

Do You know any tools that can be used as external diff viewer for Teamcity\'s Visual Studio plugin?

I\'m using Visual Studio 2010 Pro and Teamcity 5.1.2.

Answer 1

Haven't looked at VS for a while, so I'm note sure what's changed in the last few years. That being said, I like a couple of Source Forge Projects in this area KDiff3 and
Notepad++ with the Compare Plugin from the plugins project.
and the reason I haven't paid a lot of attention to the Visual Studio side of things is that I am a Delphi freak, and the diff tool I've been using for years, because until recently even what I was using from Project JEDI's JediVCS which has an integral diff tool.

Answer 2

We use Beyond Compare 3 which is very easy to use with the TeamCity Plugin (set the path to the executable (BComp.exe) and set %1 %2 /lefttitle="%3" /righttitle="%4" as the Command Arguments.

A good open source alternative is WinMerge.

Answer 3

For WinMerge (set path to WinMergeU.exe), I use the command arguments

/x /e /ub /wl /dl %6 /dr %7 %1 %2

Answer 4

With Beyond Compare 3, I use

%1 %2 /lefttitle="%3"  /righttitle="%4" /leftreadonly

The last option makes it so you can't accidentally edit base file