Project Description

What you have been waiting for. Perform a deep compare of any two .NET objects using reflection. Shows the differences between the two objects.

Compatibility

Compatible with .NET Framework 4.0 and higher. .NET Core 1.3 and higher. Portable Class Library version works with .NET 4.0+, Silverlight 5+, Windows Phone 8+, Windows RT 8+, Xamarin iOS, and Xamarin Droid.

NuGet Package

http://www.nuget.org/packages/CompareNETObjects

Installation

Install with NuGet Package Manager Console

Install-Package CompareNETObjects

Install with .NET CLI

dotnet add package CompareNETObjects

Features

Feature Overview

• Compare Children (on by default)
• Handling for Trees with Children Pointing To Parents (Circular References)
• Compares Publicly Visible Class Fields and Properties
• Compares Private Fields and Properties (off by default)
• Source code in C#
• NUnit Test Project Included
• Ability to load settings from a config file for use with powershell
• Ability to pass in the configuration
• Ability to save and load the configuration as json
• Test Extensions .ShouldCompare and .ShouldNotCompare
• Several configuration options for comparing private elements, ignoring specific elements, including specific elements.
• Property and Field Info reflection caching for increased performance
• Rich Differences List or simple DifferencesString
• Supports custom comparison functions
• ElapsedMilliseconds indicates how long the comparison took
• Thread Safe
• Beyond Compare Report
• WinMerge Report
• CSV Report
• User Friendly Report

Options

• Ability to IgnoreCollectionOrder to compare lists of different lengths
• Ability to ignore indexer comparison
• Ability to ignore types
• Ability to ignore specific members by name or by wildcard
• Interface member filtering
• Ability to treat string.empty and null as equal
• Case insensitive option for strings

Supported Types

• Classes
• Dynamic Objects
• Primitive Types (String, Int, Boolean, etc.)
• Structs
• IList Objects
• Single and Multi-Dimensional Arrays
• IDictionary Objects
• Enums
• Timespans
• Guids
• Classes that Implement IList with Integer Indexers
• DataSet Data
• DataTable Data
• DataRow Data
• DataColumn Differences
• LinearGradient
• HashSet
• URI
• IPEndPoint
• Types of Type (RuntimeType)
• StringBuilder

Limitations

• Custom Collections with Non-Integer Indexers cannot be compared.
• When ignoring the collection order, the collection matching spec cannot be a field on a child class. It has to be a property or field of the class.
• The Portable and .NET Standard builds cannot compare private fields or properties on a classs. This is a security restriction by Microsoft.
• ElapsedMilliseconds does not work for Portable and .NET Standard builds as there is no StopWatch in those frameworks.

Getting Started

https://github.com/GregFinzer/Compare-Net-Objects/wiki/Getting-Started

Help File

https://github.com/GregFinzer/Compare-Net-Objects/blob/master/Compare-NET-Objects-Help/Compare-NET-Objects-Help.chm?raw=true

Licensing

https://github.com/GregFinzer/Compare-Net-Objects/wiki/Licensing