Amol Kher Microsoft Corporation July 2004 Applies to: the XML Diff and Patch GUI tool Summary: This article shows how to use the Xml Diff class to compare two XML files and show these differences as an HTML document in a. NET Framework 1.1 application. The article also shows how to build a Win Forms application for comparing XML files. Click here to download the code sample for this article. Contents Introduction An Overview of the XML Diff and Patch API XML Diff and Patch Meets Winforms Working with XML Diff Grams Other Features of the XML Diff and Patch Tool Introduction There is no good command line tool that can be used to compare two XML files and view the differences. There is an online tool called XML Diff and Patch that's available on the Got Dot Net website under the XML Tools section. For those who have not, you can find it at Microsoft XML Diff and Patch 1.0. It is a very convenient tool for those who want to compare the difference between two XML files. Comparing XML files is different from comparing regular text files because one wants to compare logical differences in the XML nodes not just differences in text. For example one may want to compare XML documents and ignore white space between elements, comments or processing instructions. The XML Diff and Patch tool allows one to perform such comparisons but it is primarily available as an online web application. We cannot take this tool and use it from command line. This article focuses on developing a command-line tool by reusing code from the XML Diff and Patch installation and samples. The tool works very similar to the Win Diff utility; it presents the differences in a separate window and highlights them. The XML Diff and Patch tool contains a library that contains an Xml Diff class, which can be used to compare two XML documents. The Compare method on this class takes two files and either returns true.
A program for comparing DLL versions When you build a software application, the final version will be different from the previous ones. The problem is that last minute changes can cause lot of problems and you end up packaging the tested software by reverting back to the previous version. Compare DLL Versions is a handy designed to compare the version, size and modified date of a DLL files. This tool compares the two directories for the dll version, size and the modified date.
News Features Screenshots Project At Sourceforge Licence: GPL Download Documentation Questions and Answers Abstract ( PDF) KDiff3 on Debian Donations Links Current version: ( ) Author: Joachim Eibl Please write me your suggestions for KDiff3. ( Tracker, Mailinglist) KDiff3 is a program thatcompares or merges two or three text input files or directories, shows the differences line by line and character by character (! provides an automatic merge-facility and an integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts, supports Unicode, UTF-8 and other codecs, autodetection via byte-order-mark BOM supports KIO on KDE (allows accessing ftp, sftp, fish, smb etc. Printing of differences, Manual alignment of lines, Automatic merging of version control history ($ Log$ and has an intuitive graphical user interface. Windows- Explorer integration Diff- Ext-for- KDiff3 - shell extension included in installer (originally by Sergey Zorin: see also Diff Ext) KDE- Konqueror service menu plugin Simplified integration with IBM- Rational- Clearcase for Windows ( Details). Read what else is special in a short abstract ( PDF). Supported platforms: GNU/ Linux with KDE3, KDE4 (from on Any Un*x that is supported by the Qt-libs from Trolltech, MS- Windows. Apple Mac OSX binary available. ( ) In theory any platform for which Qt-libs work. Translations by the KDE- I18 N- Team: Interface: az, bg, br, ca, cs, cy, da, de, el, en, en_ GB, es, et, fr, ga, gl, hi, hu, is, it, ja, ka, lt, nb, nl, pl, pt, pt_ BR, ro, ru, rw, sr, sr@ Latn, sv, ta, tg, tr, uk, zh_ CN Documentation: en Documentation ( PDF en, da, de, es, et, fr, it, nl, pt, sv, Installation: Several precompiled packages are available, and if you are running Linux then your distribution might contain one. Yet if you want to build yourself then download the source package, unpack it via tar xvfz filename.tar.gz and.
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