How to accomplish a windfiff style display?

How to accomplish a windiff style display?

Thanks.





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"it's definitely useless and maybe harmful".

John,

What is so special about windiff. Its UI is as simple as it gets. It is
simple window with menu.

What part of the UI you don't know how to create?


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Stoitcho Goutsev (100) [C# MVP]

"John Sitka" <johnsitka@REMOVEhotmail.com> wrote in message
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> How to accomplish a windiff style display?
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> Thanks.
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> "it's definitely useless and maybe harmful".
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I was looking for the visual representation object to use on a windows.form.
Much like the VSS Diff screen or the Wikipedia history screen. The user experience would be one
or comparing evolutions of file versions, like browsed to csv files or I may persist each one of those
csv as a version in a database. Then bind one side of the windiff display to datatable ver1 and the
other to datatable ver3 or something
Those would work in a dual pane arangement. Ganged vertical sliderbars
and the appropriate representation for modified (both eqivalent lines shaded with characters bold or something),
deleted(empty lines on the right), added (empty lines on the left).

The programming experience would be two controls, one each to point to the left and right file(or list) respectively
and a compare button.

So I'm asking for the "eyecatching list comparer display object", is there such a thing?

I've kind of resolved myself to make my own representation of this via SQL and a few conditional flags in the returned set.
And just markup a report based on that.

One other thing...
Can I use the windiff.exe IN a C# windows.form application?
I haven't done this but I guess there must be a way to fake the windowedness of a separate application
and or stop start it with cmd line parameters.

I also think that I'm either trying to do something so obvious, I don't know how to ask for it,
or it is truely an somewhat rare idea.

Thanks for your response.

J





"Stoitcho Goutsev (100) [C# MVP]" <100@100.com> wrote in message news:euPsT8LAGHA.3984@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> John,
>
> What is so special about windiff. Its UI is as simple as it gets. It is simple window with menu.
>
> What part of the UI you don't know how to create?
>
>
> --
>
> Stoitcho Goutsev (100) [C# MVP]
>
> "John Sitka" <johnsitka@REMOVEhotmail.com> wrote in message news:OvqXBcBAGHA.2360@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> How to accomplish a windiff style display?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> "it's definitely useless and maybe harmful".
>>
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>