

You can also use it for merging which is where it gets really powerful.įorgot to mention, my post also has a reg file that will configure all this for you. How well does it handle resx and proj (xml) files?Ĭan it merge resx when two people have each added a resource entry or added a file to the proj? Wednesday, Decem4:06:38 - That is great, I didn't even know it could do that. You can then compare and optionally copy the files to the deployment directory. Point it at the development directory and the deployment directory and you can see which files have been modified. Since WinMerge can compare directories, it is also a good deployment tool. Now when you view a file history from Solution Explorer it will start up WinMerge. Click OK all the way back down to get back to the main IDE.Click on the ‘Add’ button on the ‘Configure User Tools’ window.Ĭommand: C:\Program Files\WinMerge\WinMergeU.exe (or wherever you have installed WinMerge to)Īrguments: /x /e /ub /wl /dl %6 /dr %7 %1 %2.Click the ‘Configure User Tools’ button.Find the ‘Source Control’ section in the tree view and select ‘Visual Studio Team Foundation Server’.After downloading and installing, you need to configure Visual Studio.Team Foundation Server does have a built in comparison and merge tool, but personally I find WinMerge to be far better. If for anything, so I know myself when the time comes to do it all over again.
#Winmerge how to
There is also a file map that shows the overall file differences in a location pane.Ok I know VS 2010 is the new toy to be seen playing around with, but as I have just recently got delivery of my new Windows 7 pc I thought I would document how to get WinMerge to work as a comparison tool with VS2008 Team System. The app also has Regexp filtering for filenames and lines, side-by-side line difference and highlight differences inside lines. WinMerge has Unicode support, flexible syntax coloring editor, Visual SourceSafe integration, and Windows Shell integration.
#Winmerge Patch
Creates patch files (Normal-, Context- and Unified formats).Fast compare using file sizes and dates.Shell Integration (supports 64-bit Windows versions). The exact process varies from program to program, but see the next two sections for examples using WinMerge and Text Wrangler.

Explains the folder comparison window, available operations.


This package adds support to Sublime Text 2 and 3 for allowing you to.
