When will RTC support visual studio 2012 RC?
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You can get your 4.0 RTC client to work with VS 2012 - we don't yet support it officially of course - for that we need to wait till it's released. But if you just want to test it, you could enable the install into VS 2012. You need to set the environment variable "IBM_RTC_VS11_ENABLED" to "true" and then start the IBM Install Manager.
It's recommended that you use this in a test environment and not in a production environment till it's officially supported.
Cheers
--Rupa
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Perfect, thanks!
I just installed RTC client in VS2012 RTM. Our company is getting ready to switch to RTC. One of the features in VS2012 I really like is the new code compare tool, but RTC instead uses it's own. Is there a way to allow it to use the VS internal tool instead?
Are you talking about default file-comparison tool integrated with Visual Studio which is discussed at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb385990.aspx? This diff window seems tied to TFS, in which case RTC will not be able to use it. Please let us know if this is not what you meant.
- RTC VS team
I revisited this recently when contemplating dropping support for Visual Studio 2010 in a future release, and I saw there are three ways of invoking the integrated diff tool in Visual Studio 2012, per http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13752998/compare-two-files-in-visual-studio-2012
We will explore these options as part of Create an integrated compare editor In the VS Client (228326)
Though, on the surface, it seemed like the utility was tied to Team Foundation Server, turned out, it isn’t. I have written up a tip on configuring RTC with Visual Studio's compare tool at https://jazz.net/blog/index.php/2017/06/29/using-visual-studios-built-in-diffmerge-tool-with-rational-team-concert/
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For planning purposes, we try to target support for new Visual Studio releases within 90 days of the final release bits availability from Microsoft. The current target for RTC 4.0.1 is Q4 2012. The plan says 80 days from today or around the Thanksgiving holiday for final availability. Any future changes to that date will be reflected in the plan.
You can run a mix of RTC 3.x, 4.0.x and 4.0.1 clients against a 4.0.1 server so only the teams that need VS 2012 would have to upgrade their rich clients to RTC 4.0.1.
