

In Source Control Explorer, right-click a file and select Compare.Īt this point, we can choose any different two files, two folders, two versions of branches into the Source Path and the Target Path for the comparison. On the menu bar, choose View, Other Windows => Source Control Explorer. We can compare any two files using the Compare dialog. Compare Files (1), with TFS and Git GUI in Visual Studio We will discuss these features in the first article of this article series and then as an alternative, we invoke the Visual Studio built-in Comparison Tools from the command line that we will discuss in the second article in this article series and finally, we discuss the alternative ways to compare files without Visual Studio in the third article. The Visual Studio only supports the GUI Compare Files feature to TFS or Git, the source control tools.
#TFS ON VISUAL STUDIO 2012 CODE#
Other Applications, such as VS Code or Word.

#TFS ON VISUAL STUDIO 2012 SOFTWARE#
One usually has the need to compare two files or two folders, or two branches, especially as a frequent user of Visual Studio, one hopes to find a way to use Visual Studio to complete the comparison job in Visual Studio with somewhat the way like Source Control or Version Control software for comparison.
