Diff Finder for Visual Studio 2026

DiffFinder (from rajeevboobna / shelvesetcomparer) extends the existing hamidshahid / shelvesetcomparer Visual Studio extension.
ShelvesetComparer is a Visual Studio extension that allow users to compare contents of two shelvesets (from on or different users).

DiffFinder extends it to also

• 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)

VisualStudio Marketplace

• DiffFinder for VS2026 (icnocop)
  • Fork of dprZoft / shelvesetcomparer with additional improvements, including a fix for diff tool arguments containing spaces (dprZoft#17) and an automated GitHub Actions build.
• DiffFinder for VS2026
  • New release required because, although Microsoft VS2026 tries to be backward compatible, extensions which depend on VS objects (like TeamExplorer) still need to be recompiled with matching references..
• DiffFinder for VS2022
• DiffFinder for VS2019
• ShelvesetComparer:
  • ShelvesetComparer for VS2022 (see releases)
  • ShelvesetComparer for VS2019
• Previous versions:
  • DiffFinder (VS2017)
  • ShelvesetComparer (VS2017)

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: