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I know I can look at the "Source Control - Team Foundation" output in the Output window but it's hard to tell where the results from the current request begin and the last request ended sometimes, and any files that I want to compare that are in the list I have to go look up.

In the past when I used subversion, I had a tool (I think tortoise) that did an awesome job showing me all the files that were changed and I could click directly on them to compare with latest version. I would often use this to do quick code reviews, and it made it much easier to make sure I wasn't about to get an updated project file that had been improperly merged.

Are there any extensions/plugins or anything that can help with this for TFS when getting latest?

BVernon
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  • Which version of TFS are you using? Am I correct in assuming that you're using TFVC and not Git? – Wouter de Kort Jan 12 '18 at 14:07
  • Using Visual Studio 2013... I'm assuming version of TFS is same but I will verify when I can take a look tomorrow. And yes we are using tfvc. – BVernon Jan 13 '18 at 07:48

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Unfortunately there isn't such a tool can exactly achieve that, there is a user voice submitted here, and it's ARCHIVED.

Based on my experience, the best thing to do is a folder comparison before you get the latest version. In Source Control Explorer, you can compare the differences between two server folders, two local folders, or a server folder and a local folder. Right click on the target folder and select Compare. Read more here.

To see the changes block you can introduce the third compare tools. (e.g BeyondCompare, ExamDiff, Code Compare etc, you can reference my answer in another thread : Visual Studio TFVC Merge Lines Misaligned). In short you can get the change list from Output window, then compare each file accordingly.

Besides, you can also try using the Tf Command Line Utility and the Visual Studio extension Diff All Files for VS2013. Reference this thread for details : TFS Shortcut to do a diff on all modified files with latest version

Andy Li-MSFT
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  • Ok thanks. That's what I was afraid of. Currently I look at output window as you mentioned and manually look or sometimes I'll go to look at changesets before I get latest. Thing about it is that with SVN it was so quick and easy that it wasn't a waste of time to review code like really often and give feedback to other developers often. The extra minutes of time involved with doing it on TFS makes it a once in a while thing. – BVernon Jan 16 '18 at 22:44