GroupDocs.Comparsion for .NET 17.4.0 Release Notes

This page contains release notes for GroupDocs.Comparsion for .NET 17.4.0

Major Features

There are 3 new features and 3 improvements and 4 fix in this regular monthly release. The most notable are:

Introduced support of multi compare for formats to GroupDocs.Comparison public API
Introduced supporting of CAD formats
Improved comparison of Imaging formats
Simplify API across all supported formats
Fixed comparing multi-column tables for GroupDocs.Comparison.PDF
GroupDocs.Comparison.PDF: Fix bug when the text from the paragraphs overlaps tables

Full List of Issues Covering all Changes in this Release

Key	Summary	Category
COMPARISONNET-1143	Add support of multi compare for formats to GroupDocs.Comparison public API	New Feature
COMPARISONNET-1172	Add UpdateChanges Model for Imaging	New Feature
COMPARISONNET-1175	Add supporting of comparison CAD	New Feature
COMPARISONNET-1188	Improve comparison of Imaging formats	Improvement
COMPARISONNET-1182	Cross-format API simplifications across all supported formats	Improvement
COMPARISONNET-1080	Comparison.PDF: Improve comparison changes detection for Paragraphs	Improvement
COMPARISONNET-1184	GroupDocs.Comparison.Words: Text files with html content compared by Words engine	Bug
COMPARISONNET-1185	GroupDocs.Comparison.Text: Fix compare html code in .txt files using word comparer	Bug
COMPARISONNET-1200	GroupDocs.Comparison.PDF: Fix bug when the text from the paragraphs overlaps tables	Bug
COMPARISONNET-1208	Disposed Images in Facade	Bug

Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes

This section lists public API changes that were introduced in GroupDocs.Comparison for .NET 17.4.0. It includes not only new and obsoleted public methods, but also a description of any changes in the behavior behind the scenes in GroupDocs.Comparison which may affect existing code. Any behavior introduced that could be seen as a regression and modifies existing behavior is especially important and is documented here.

Compare more than two documents from files:

string source = "source.docx";
List<string> targets = new List<string>
{
	"target.docx",
	"target1.docx",
	"target2.docx"
};
Comparer comparer = new Comparer();
ICompareResult result = comparer.Compare(source, targets, new ComparisonSettings());

Compare more than two documents from streams:

Stream source = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream("source.docx");
List<Stream> targets = new List<Stream>
{
	Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream("target.docx"),
	Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream("target1.docx"),
	Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream("target2.docx")
};
Comparer comparer = new Comparer();
ICompareResult result = comparer.Compare(source, targets, new ComparisonSettings());

Compare more than two documents with passwords from files:

string source = "source.docx";
List<string> targets = new List<string>
{
	"target.docx",
	"target1.docx",
	"target2.docx"
};
string sourcePassword = "password";
List<string> targetPasswords = new List<string>
{
	"password",
	"password",
	"password"
};
Comparer comparer = new Comparer();
ICompareResult result = comparer.Compare(source, sourcePassword, targets, targetPasswords, new ComparisonSettings());

Compare more than two documents with passwords from streams:

Stream sourceStream = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream("source.docx");
List<Stream> targets = new List<Stream>
{
	Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream("target.docx"),
	Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream("target1.docx"),
	Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream("target2.docx")
};

string sourcePassword = "password";
List<string> targetPasswords = new List<string>
{
	"password",
	"password",
	"password"
};

Comparer comparer = new Comparer();
ICompareResult result = comparer.Compare(source, sourcePassword, targets, targetPasswords, new ComparisonSettings());