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madskristensen / FileDiffer

A Visual Studio extension
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It is unclear how to compare two files (that exist outside of a solution) #22

Closed daiplusplus closed 4 years ago

daiplusplus commented 6 years ago

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Description

I want to compare/diff two files that I have saved on my desktop, but I can't see any menu item to compare two files - only the Solution explorer context-menu option to compare a solution item with another file.

Expected behavior

I'd like to see a "Compare files..." option on the main Visual Studio File or Tools menu which would open two Open File Dialog prompts to select the two files to compare.

Netstep commented 6 years ago

Seems it doesn't work in folders mode, only in solution mode

borysr commented 5 years ago

Can this be added to the folder mode and may be, "compare open files "?

Trevor89 commented 4 years ago

Ah, ok, my issue is answered and so Ill add my vote to this too

Trev

daiplusplus commented 4 years ago

Netstep Seems it doesn't work in folders mode, only in solution mode

In addition to Folders Mode, I'd like it to also work when VS doesn't have any Solution or Folder open at all - e.g. from the Start Page or from an Empty environment. It sucks that Microsoft removed windiff.exe from the Windows 10 SDK - so I've been using web-based diffing websites like https://www.diffchecker.com/ - but this doesn't work well when I'm working with large files or files that I'd like syntax highlighting for, or when those files contain secret/confidential information that I don't want to post to an untrusted website/

madskristensen commented 4 years ago

Duplicate of #20