Visual Studio crashes while trying to compare or compare files

Question

I use TFS for version control, and the other day I fell behind my laptop while VS was working. I could not connect to the Internet, and then, unfortunately, an unexpected shutdown occurred. Since then, I have not been able to go into pending changes and compare the file with it in the previous version. When I do this, Visual Studio crashes.

I can change the user tool in Options> Source Control> Visual Studio Team Foundation Server to use a third-party diff checker, and it doesn't work. However, I'm used to Visual Studio diff checker and would like to continue using it, if only because it does not open a separate window for diff.

Since I'm not sure about the source of the problem, my question is twofold:

First, how do I fix the Visual Studio diff check and stop it from crashing every time I try to compare with the previous version.

Or, if the problem is related to TFS, why does it crash and how to fix it?

Answer 1

• VS Tools
• Options
• Text editor
• Html
• Additionally
• Extension management
• Identify Useful Extensions

Change this parameter to false. Old question, but I needed to fix this recently, so the error still exists!

Answer 2

I solved this problem by choosing Tools -> Options -> Source control -> Plug-in Selection and changing the plugin to "Git"

Answer 3

• Try disabling the ability to identify useful extensions: Go to Tools → Options → Text editor → HTML → Advanced . > → Manage extension → Define useful extensions and go to false .
• You can start VS in safe mode with the / SafeMode option .