Do you know any file comparison add-in for visual studio

Question

Is there any built-in, add-in solution for visual studio to compare two files and display result with differences? I could\'t find one...

Answer 1

Depending on your use case I'd recommend VisualSVN. You'll get the source control feature of SVN built into the VS IDE plus the ability to compare any source code file with any checked in version file from SVN.

It installs all the prerequites for you SVN (Subversion), TortoiseSVN, Diff, AND VisualSVN (The Visual Studio Integration).

It also has a nice quick windows installer for the SVN server which worries about apache etc. so you don't have to.

Essential for the non linux geek, it it not free but at $49 it is a bargain,

http://www.visualsvn.com/

Answer 2

Once you add some version control plugin to visual studio, you can select the tool for diff.
Perforce are giving away their diff and merge tool for free, it is very good and you don't have to be using the perforce version control system to be using it. one can download it from their site; it is called p4merge. when running the installer you should only select the feature "Visual Merge Tool (P4Merge)" and unselect the other features which are only relevant if you are using perforce.

personally I use vim because it do syntax coloring (which I feel is very helpful especially when you do diff or merge) but it has a steep learning curve.

Answer 3

In addition to djeidot's answer: beware if you're using Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio Comparison Tools works very well with VS 2008, but does not under VS 2010...

Answer 4

As for me, CodeCompare is a useful solution for your task. You can compare, merge and edit data within one environment - in the Visual Studio.