How to ignore white space when comparing source in Visual Studio / TFS?

Question

The compare tool in Visual Source Safe (pre TFS) had a handy checkbox to select \"Ignore White Space\".

Now we are using TFS with Visual Studio 2010, and the compare

Answer 1

The default diff tool in Visual Studio is extremely annoying. I suggest you use an alternative. WinMerge is my favourite. It also has an option to ignore whitespace (menu Edit -> Options -> Compare -> Ignore all (under the groupbox "Whitespace" at the top)).

See Using WinMerge with TFS.