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Once we've switched from Workbench to Visual Studio for Traditional Synergy code, will I still be able to use DiffZILLA? Are there better options for diff tools?


 

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0   | Posted by Jeana Wood to Visual Studio Integration on 5/25/2016, 3:36 PM
Ace Olszowka
I'm personally a fan of WinMerge (Free/Open Source); I know several of our Developers also swear by BeyondCompare (Closed source/$$), yet still others feel TortoiseMerge or even Visual Studio's Diff Meets their needs.

5/25/2016, 4:28 PM   0  
Marty Lewis
You can still use DiffZilla as long as you have Workbench installed. Visual Studio does include a reasonably nice diff utility, but it doesn't do the same kind of folder structure diff that DiffZilla can do. Visual Studio's diff works best when used in conjuction with one of the source control integrations, as it will quickly let you diff the current working file against past versions of the file. It's possible to diff arbitrary files, but there isn't intuitive UI around it.

We'll cover a bit about how to use Visual Studio's diff in the Thursday session!

5/25/2016, 4:30 PM   0  
Mark Vinten
If you don't have DiffZilla you can always use a product from SourceGear called DiffMerge which I like a lot.  You can use that to difference folders as well as files but isn't fully integrated so you have to use Explorer via a right click, which is one of the main reasons I like it as it is easy to use for both Source Control purposes (I have it integrated with TortoiseSVN) and any copy of a folder should you use that method too.

5/31/2016, 11:00 AM   0  
Nick Hennemann
We use CodeCompare from Devart:
https://www.devart.com/codecompare/
 

5/31/2016, 4:37 PM   1  
Gayle Lewis
We use Beyond Compare.  Yes it costs a little money, but well worth it.  We've even extended it to compare 2 isam files by unloading them and comparing the data.  Can compare different revisions directly from source control, entire directories, etc.  We've plugged it directly into Workbench, source control(Serena and SVN), Visual Studio and Windows Explorer.  Don't know how we got along without it.

6/17/2016, 12:46 PM   2  
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