Diff_WPF Repository

Compare files using file dialog lookup and fc.exe

Quick Status

Code functions correctly

no known defects

Demonstration code

yes

Documentation

yes

Test cases

Static library

Build requires

Windows, C# 7.0

Planned design changes

Update with new CodeUtilities

Fig 1. Diff_WPF GUI

Responsibilities:

Diff_WPF provides a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) GUI for the Windows fc.exe, file compare utility. The GUI provides the user a file dialog to find two files to compare. It then spawns a process running fc and displays the results in a textarea.

Design:

The Diff_WPF uses a fairly simple Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) display with buttons to open a file dialog to find each of two files to compare. After each dialog closes, the file text is shown in the text area. When the compare button is pressed, the GUI spawns windows diff.exe with the fully-qualified names of both files on its command line. The diff process writes the comparison result to a string that the GUI displays in its text area.

Build:

Diff_WPF was built with Visual Studio Community Edition - 2019, and tested on Windows 10.