{"id":10291,"date":"2005-11-16T12:14:32","date_gmt":"2005-11-16T17:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/?p=10291"},"modified":"2019-05-06T12:15:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T16:15:21","slug":"how-to-work-around-the-diff-viewer-problem-in-team-explorer-beta-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/how-to-work-around-the-diff-viewer-problem-in-team-explorer-beta-3\/","title":{"rendered":"How to work around the diff viewer problem in Team Explorer Beta 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you install only the Team Explorer (and not VSTS), there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/vstudio\/teamsystem\/tfsknownissues.aspx#TeamFoundationVersionControl\">known issue<\/a> (7.3) where the diff viewer won&#8217;t work.&nbsp; It also affects the built-in merge tool, but I think that&#8217;s less painful for users who just need Team Explorer.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;tool is diffmerge.exe, and it uses msdiff.dll.&nbsp;The msdiff.dll needs several missing several&nbsp;VC runtime dlls that normally get installed as part of the VS installation.<\/p>\n<p>To work around this problem in beta 3, you can hook up a third-party diff tool.&nbsp; Just go to Tools-&gt;Options-&gt;Source Control-&gt;Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and click on&nbsp;Configure User Tools to specify the diff tool of your choice.&nbsp; Enter &#8220;*&#8221; for the Extension, the path to your diff viewer&#8217;s executable in the Command and leave the Arguments as &#8220;%1 %2&#8221; to hook it up.<\/p>\n<p>For example, you could use windiff from the Windows XP tools.&nbsp; I think you can just copy the windiff.exe after extracting it on one machine.<br><a title=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyID=49ae8576-9bb9-4126-9761-ba8011fabf38&amp;displayLang=en\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyID=49ae8576-9bb9-4126-9761-ba8011fabf38&amp;displayLang=en\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyID=49ae8576-9bb9-4126-9761-ba8011fabf38&amp;displayLang=en<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can find some docs for it here.<br><a title=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/default.aspx?scid=%2Fdirectory%2Fworldwide%2Fen-gb%2Futility3.asp\" href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/default.aspx?scid=%2Fdirectory%2Fworldwide%2Fen-gb%2Futility3.asp\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/default.aspx?scid=%2Fdirectory%2Fworldwide%2Fen-gb%2Futility3.asp<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you install only the Team Explorer (and not VSTS), there is a known issue (7.3) where the diff viewer won&#8217;t work.&nbsp; It also affects the built-in merge tool, but I think that&#8217;s less painful for users who just need Team Explorer. The&nbsp;tool is diffmerge.exe, and it uses msdiff.dll.&nbsp;The msdiff.dll needs several missing several&nbsp;VC runtime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":10268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>If you install only the Team Explorer (and not VSTS), there is a known issue (7.3) where the diff viewer won&#8217;t work.&nbsp; It also affects the built-in merge tool, but I think that&#8217;s less painful for users who just need Team Explorer. The&nbsp;tool is diffmerge.exe, and it uses msdiff.dll.&nbsp;The msdiff.dll needs several missing several&nbsp;VC runtime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}