Comparison of Variable or Document Properties

How to compare variable or document properties in C#

GroupDocs.Comparison for .NET (which is a part of Conholdate.Total for .NET) facilitate you to compare several properties of a WORD document such as Variable, Built, and Custom properties.

The following fields of the CompareOptions class are used to enable comparison functions for document properties:

• CompareVariableProperty - to activate the comparison of variable properties;
• CompareDocumentProperty - to activate the comparison of built and custom properties.

Following are the steps to activate compare document properties:

• Instantiate Comparer object with source file path or stream;
• Call Add method and specify target file path or stream;
• Instantiate CompareOptions object and set CompareVariableProperty property to true (CompareDocumentProperty to true for built and custom properties);
• Call Comparer method and pass CompareOptions object from previous step.

Example code block to activate comparison of Variable, Built and Custom properties

using (Comparer comparer = new Comparer(sourcePath))
{
    comparer.Add(targetPath);
    CompareOptions options = new CompareOptions();
    options.CompareVariableProperty = true; // to activate the comparison of variable properties
    options.CompareDocumentProperty = true; // to activate the comparison of built and custom properties
     
    comparer.Compare(resultPath, options);
}

The result of comparing properties

The result of comparing properties is presented on a separate page - Properties summary page.