Up until now I have mostly used SourceSafe and TFS for comparing files. Recently I had a situation where I had to do a so called “Baseless Merge” in TFS. This worked quite well for most files. Then there were some files that were not as easy to merge. So a manual merge was required. Not being quite happy with the file comparing offered by VS, I searched and found a nice option:
- Use FreeCommander to find all files that have differences.
- Use Compare It! to compare and syncronize the contents of files.
To be able to use the “Compare left and right sides” option in FreeCommander, you need to go into Extras –> Settings in FreeCommander, in the Programs section, and set “Compare files” to “C:\Program Files\Compare It!\wincmp3.exe” assuming that’s where Compare It! is installed.
FreeCommander may be found at http://www.freecommander.com.
Compare It! may be found at http://www.grigsoft.com.
I think using these two great tools together is synergy in action!
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