How to configure Visual Studio 2012 to use Beyond Compare 3

Question

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

I can't find an appropriate solution from http://www.scootersoftware.com/support.php?zz=kb_vcs#svn

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

Nonconcurrence

In what way does 2012 differ for you? When I looked in the configuration dialog the options looked the same. – Consternate

Answer 1

The VS 2010 instructions work in VS 2012: How to configure Visual Studio to use Beyond Compare

Consternate

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 – Passacaglia

Answer 2

In Visual Studio 2008 + , go to the

Tools menu -->  select Options 

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

and click OK button..

Yelmene

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. – Coniology

Answer 3

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

Hawken