Inside our Developers, Administrator, and End User Subscriptions we give you the ability to request a topic or “How Do I.” We get a lot of good requests and have recorded many of these. We cannot get to them all, but we evaluate each one and categorize and prioritize them as a group.

Sometimes we get a request that just doesn’t fit. They could be a video, could be a blog entry or just an email will suffice. This next one fits into a mixture, so here we go. The question was that the video we have on merge and diff does not:

appear to elaborate on the parameters that we are supposed to pass to DiffMerge. We would like to use that bundled tool to help us work through the customizations our vendor partner implemented

This interested me a lot since I like KDiff3 and I know different developers have their preference or have already purchased a solution. So how can I show the options in one area? Of course I went to Google <-click the link and you can see me Google.

Anyway I was left here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/jmanning/articles/535573.aspx.

James does a great job of showing the most common tools and their parameters. Application Architect allows for a %File1% and a %File2% which can replace James’ %1 and %2. I wont steal the charts from his site, but this is what I enter for diffmerge:

I hope that helps to clear that up.