How to configure Visual Studio 2012 to use Beyond Compare 3

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I would like to configure Visual Studio 2012 to open Beyond Compare by default as the diff tool. How can I do this?

Note: The same SO question about VS 2010 is here but 2012 differs.

In what way does 2012 differ for you? When I looked in the configuration dialog the options looked the same. — Stuart Thompson, Nov 15 '12 at 23:27

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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User tools configuration dialog in VS2012

edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

Community

answered Nov 15 '12 at 23:26

Stuart Thompson

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NOTE -- it's important to say BComp.exe and not BCompare.exe. I got a file not found on the server's copy when I used BCompare.exe – 101010 Aug 28 '13 at 23:40

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 23 '13 at 09:59

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In Visual Studio 2008 + , go to the

Tools menu -->  select Options

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In Options Window --> expand Source Control --> Select Subversion User Tools --> Select Beyond Compare

and click OK button..

answered May 23 '13 at 09:59

BJ Patel

This doesn't work when you use `Microsoft Git Provider` as your Source Control. `EDIT:` This does work for SVN and answers OP's questions, just wanted to add in for future readers as I didn't see SVN specifically in the OP's question, but noticed it later as a tag. – RoLYroLLs Jul 16 '13 at 17:51

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 08 '12 at 23:04

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Configure SVN to use BC, if you can't find old settings in new interface

answered Nov 08 '12 at 23:04

Lazy Badger

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