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Using WinMerge with Visual Studio Team System Generated

WinMerge is an excellent tool for comparing files that can greatly facilitate this task in Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). While VSTS already has a comparison tool from my point of view is not very practical or intuitive.

first thing we do is make WinMerge discharge which may make it from: http://winmerge.org/downloads/

Once the download, we proceed to the installation of the tool. Thus we can perform the configuration for use with VSTS.

WinMerge Settings in VSTS

1. Open Visual Studio Team System and in the Menu bar, select Tools and then Options .

2. In the Options window , select Source Control and then Visual Studio Team Foundation Server .

3. We now Click the button on the right side Configure User Tools.

4. This button shows the window to configure WinMerge as a tool to Merge and Compare .

5. Select the Add ... button and this window will show us where we enter the necessary configuration information.

6. Enter the following information to configure the Compare tool:
- Extension, writing *
- Operation, select Compare
- Command, select the path where it was installed WinMerge C: \\ Program Files \\ WinMerge \\ WinMerge.exe
- Arguments, type / e / x / s / wl / dl% 6 / dr% 7 % 1% 2
- Click OK to accept

7. Enter the following information to configure the Merge tool:
- Extension, type *
- Operation, select Merge
- Command, select the path where it was installed WinMerge C: \\ Program Files \\ WinMerge \\ WinMerge.exe
- Arguments, writing / e / s / x / ub / dl% 6 / dr% 7% 1% 2% 4
- Click OK to accept

8. Now we have set the Merge tool WinMerge as and Compare on VSTS, with this setting now when we need to Merge or Compare tasks will be through

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