file-comparison

.NET Library for merging files

Hi all, Do You know any .net library that can be used for comparing and especially merging of two files (like .pst) - would be the best if open-source or inexpensive. ...

Eclipse (3.5) how to compare files horizontally?

Hi, Normally Eclipse 'File Compare' compares files in vertical panels like: Is there a way I can compare them horizontally like: Its too tiring to scroll everytime to see what was changed!! Thx ...

C# file comparison utility

Can you recommend a good file comparison utility that is able to handle C# very well. I have tried both WinMerge, BeyondCompare and KDiff and they are not good enough, e.g. if I have functions with the same name but placed in different areas of the file they show it as differences. ...

How can I know if an "assembly" really did change?

Hi All, I created a simple "Hello World" application in VS2005. It's a straight-forward console application; it only contains the following lines: Console.WriteLine("Hello World"); Console.ReadLine(); When I tried to rebuild the same console application WITHOUT performing any changes (just press the rebuild button), I get a subtly di...

Reliable way to (programmatically) compare PDFs?

I am in the classic scenario where the business gives you a bunch of new pdf forms for the new year with no revision notes whatsoever and you are supposed to figure out what's different from the previous year ones. I am talking loads of forms here, so I am trying to find a way to compare PDFs to outline differences without having people...

NSFileManager contentsEqualAtPath:andPath: compare checksum data

Does the NSFileManager method contentsEqualAtPath:andPath: create a dynamic checksum to compare two files, does it open the file header and compare file header details or does it use some other method for comparing? I have a list of 200,000 or so files to compare where the local files are to be compared with the files on a remote server...