Shelveset Comparer for Visual Studio 2026

Shelveset Comparer is a Visual Studio extension that allow users to compare contents of two shelvesets (from on or different users).

Features

• allow comparison of a shelveset with current workspace local pending changes
• compare shelvesets targeting different branches, e.g. $/BranchA/path/to/file1 with $/BranchB/path/to/file1

Color coding used in file comparison:

• black: no difference / both files are identical
• red: differences / both files differ
• blue: file exists only in one of the compared containers (Shelveset or Pending Changes)

Examples

1. Open Shelveset selection from TeamExplorer:

2. Select two Shelvesets for comparison or one Shelvesets to compare with current Pending Changes:

3. File comparison view comparing two Shelvesets:

   • Shelvesets with same file paths (same branch):

   • Shelvesets with different paths (algorithm tries to find the best match (most common path parts)):

     • differerent branches but same relative path:

     • different branches and different paths: