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IHierarchicalStringDifferenceService Interface

Visual Studio 2012

Visual Studio 2010

Note: This API is now obsolete.

This service has several shortcut methods that compute differences over strings, snapshots, and spans.

Namespace: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Differencing
Assembly: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Data (in Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Data.dll)

Syntax

C++

JScript

[ObsoleteAttribute("This interface has been deprecated in favor of the ITextDifferencingSelectorService MEF service.")]
public interface IHierarchicalStringDifferenceService

The IHierarchicalStringDifferenceService type exposes the following members.

Methods

	Name	Description
	DiffSnapshotSpans	Calculates the differences between two snapshot spans, using the given difference options.
	DiffStrings	Calculates the differences between two strings, using the given difference options.

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Remarks

This is a MEF component part, and should be imported as follows:

[Import]
Internal IHierarchicalStringDifferenceService hierarchicalService = null;

Differences are computed according to the specified StringDifferenceTypes, starting with the most general type. Line is more general than word, and word is more general than character.

Examples

Given string A:

This is a line!

and string B:

This is but a line!

The returned difference collection contains one line difference, which maps to line 1 of each string.

This difference contains one word difference, which is the addition of the words "but" and " ".

Reference

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Differencing Namespace

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