Visual Studio 2015, a code review and a custom comparison / merge tool, is there a way to do all this?

Question

I set up Visual Studio 2015, which uses Team Foundation Version Control to use Beyond Compare 4 as a tool for merging and comparing.

This, however, makes the code verification functionality non-functional, as the code scan is based on a built-in comparison tool to give it comments related to the source, etc.

Is there a way to configure this so that it:

• Uses my custom (Beyond Compare 4) for normal comparison and merging
• Uses a built-in comparison function when conducting code review

The dialogs for setting up a custom comparison and merge tool do not seem to help in this, and I looked through the rest of the settings without finding anything.

Answer 1

I do not think VS 2015 offers such functionality. There is no way to split the code comparison utility using comparison. Also, it seems that Beyond Compare 4 does not support code scans inside VS. However, I found 2 solutions to your problem:

• Use software that supports both standard comparison and code verification (comments, etc.), for example. https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/dace3633-0b51-4629-85d4-c59cdce5bb3b
• Use VS 2012 / TFS 2012, because in this code review, versions are always executed using buildin compare ultility: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/e7bf2a2d-8347-40ee-9561- fef55c4f0686 / tfs-2012vs-2012-code-reviews-diff-tool? forum = tfsgeneral