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When you develop computer software or design a Web site, you work with multiple folders and multiple files within those folders. Often, you use a combination of programming languages and maintain multiple versions of a single project. Therefore, you always feel the need to manage your project. Project Diff is a tool that allows you to find differences in projects, folders, and files and merge them if needed.
Project Diff is just 1 MB in size and its installation takes just few seconds. It comes with a colorful and simple GUI. It uses different colors and fonts to highlight differences. Upon starting it, you get to see a wizard listing four comparison options. These are Compare Folders, Compare Projects, Compare Files as Text, and Compare Files as Binary.
When you select Compare Projects, you need to provide the locations of project versions to be compared. Your project could be Microsoft Visual Studio Solution, Microsoft Visual C++ Workspace, Microsoft eMbedded Visual C++ Workspace, Microsoft Visual Basic Project, Microsoft Visual J++ Project, Borland Delphi Project, or Borland C++ Builder Project. It finds out differences within corresponding files in all folders between two versions of a project. The differences that you can notice immediately are project last modified date and time, file size, file attributes, and versions.
When you select Compare Folders, you need to provide the locations of folder versions to be compared. It finds out differences within corresponding files between two versions of a folder. The differences that you can notice immediately are file last modified date and time, file size, file attributes, and file version.
When you select Compare Files, you need to provide the locations of file versions to be compared. It finds out differences within text between file versions. The differences that you can notice immediately are white space amount, blank lines, comments, character casing, line end characters, and tab spaces.
When you select Compare Files as Binary, Project Diff finds out differences between within text between file versions at byte level. Upon selecting Options, you can also change the colors and fonts that Project Diff uses to highlight differences. In all the four comparison options, you get the facility of previewing and printing a comparison report. Project Diff is a cheap and effective tool. Use it to solve all your project comparison needs.
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