To display the Command window within Visual Studio, choose View => Other Windows => Command Window. Compare Files (2), with Visual Studio Built-in Tool 1, Command-Line 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 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 GUI Compare Files feature to TFS or Git, the source control tools. B: Visual Studio Extention for Comparison Tools from Third Parties:.Other Applications, such like VS Code or Word.A: Tools outside of Visual Studio for Files Comparison.

Compare Files (3), with Visual Studio Extension or Non-Visual Studio Apps.Compare Files (2), with Visual Studio Built-in Tool.Compare Files (3), with Visual Studio Extension or Other Apps.Compare Files (2), with Visual Studio Built-in Tool - this article.Compare Files (1), with TFS and Git GUI in Visual Studio.It seems this article is a little bit too long, I split it into two: one with native Visual Studio Tool, another is Visual Studio with Extension or Non-Visual Studio.Īfter splitting the article into two, they are still too long, I split it as three, This article will cover this topic and related issues (we use the current version of 2019 16.11.0). 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.

Property file comparison tool