Does anyone have, or know of, a binary patch generation algorithm implementation in C#? Basically, compare two files (designated old and new), and produce a patch file that can be used to upgrade the old file to have the same contents as the new file. The implementation would have to be relatively fast, and work with huge files. It sho...
Creating a patch is very easy in SubVersion, With Tortoise, you right-click and select Create Patch. But for the life of me, I can't find this functionality in TFS. Is this possible? If not, what's the standard way to submit patches in open source TFS hosted projects (a la CodePlex)? ...
One thing I've always wondered about is how software patches work. A lot of software seems to just release new versions on their binaries that need to be installed over older versions, but some software (operating systems like Windows in particular) seem to be able to release very small patches that correct bugs or add functionality to e...
How do software houses like Microsoft or anti-virus companies patch/update their software? Anti virus companies dont send the complete executable; only new virus signatures I suppose. Similarly, Ive noticed microsoft sends certain files to the '$NtUninstallKB......$' folder that it creates when it the windows update program runs. I sup...