How can I easily diff/compare 2 shelvesets in TFS?

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koregan picture koregan · Mar 31, 2010 · Viewed 17.3k times · Source

Is there a way to compare 2 shelves in TFS without having to resort to unshelving both in separate workspaces and diffing the files?

Answer

Hamid Shahid picture Hamid Shahid · Jan 20, 2014

I was looking for the same i.e. to compare the contents of two shelveets without needing to unshelve one of them. End up writing a Visual Studio extension for the functionality.

The extension is available for Visual studio 2013

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/1fa59764-efc6-457a-a5f3-81ca68e280e8

and for Visual studio 2012

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/33c521d4-73fc-48be-969d-fa68c511341f

Please feel free to use and give your feedback.

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