Use BeyondCompare as default Diff in Visual Studio with Team Foundation Server

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1. In Visual Studio Choose Options from the Tools menu.
2. Expand Source Control in the treeview.
3. Click Visual Studio Team Foundation Server in the treeview.
4. Click the Configure User Tools button.
5. Click the Add button.
6. Enter “.*” [...]

How to open files from cygwin into Visual Studio

Had the desire to open files from the command line (a cygwin terminal, mintty, to be specific) into my existing session of Visual Studio 2008. Here is what you can do.

Adjust paths as necessary. Put this in your bash profile:

export PATH=$PATH:/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Microsoft\ Visual\ Studio\ 9.0/Common7/IDE/
alias devedit="devenv \$1 /edit"

Now, this gives you two [...]