title: Compare Configurations within Visual Studio?
body: <p>Actually i come around a problem i get more often into as i like to:</p>
  
  <p>Consider the following:
  You just made a new solution/project and start creating/adding all the stuff you need. While you're doing so, you're always on the way within the debug configuration. You make changes to your configuration (in C++ projects especially compiler, linker settings) and at the end of the day you just want to swap to release mode to make a final build and what happens?? You got plenty of error messages about missing defines, linked libraries, preprocessor definitions, precompiled headers, etc.)</p>
  
  <p>And now? You open the Project Properties, select each item in the tree view and switch for and back with the combo box of the Configuration at the top left.</p>
  
  <p>Due to the fact, that both configurations are saved within one file you can't also use a simple Diff-Tool or you have to copy and paste both parts out of the project file into two different files, compare them and merge everything back into the project file.</p>
  
  <p>Isn't there a better solution to compare different configurations within one project??</p>