RichEditDocumentServerExtensions.Compare(Document, Document) Method

Compares the current document with another document. Returns the document with revisions.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraRichEdit

Assembly: DevExpress.Docs.v25.1.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Document.Processor

Declaration

C#

public static Document Compare(
    this Document original,
    Document revisedDocument
)

VB.NET

<ExtensionAttribute>
Public Shared Function Compare(
    original As Document,
    revisedDocument As Document
) As Document

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
original	Document	The original document.
revisedDocument	Document	The document that should be compared to the original document.

Returns

Type	Description
Document	The document with revisions.

Example

The following code snippet compares two documents loaded into two RichEditDocumentServer instances:

C#

using DevExpress.XtraRichEdit;
using DevExpress.XtraRichEdit.API.Native;

var wordProcessor = new RichEditDocumentServer();
var wordProcessorRevised = new RichEditDocumentServer();
wordProcessor.LoadDocument("C:\\Documents\\sample text original.docx");
wordProcessorRevised.LoadDocument("C:\\Documents\\sample text revised.docx");

Document document = wordProcessor.Document.Compare(wordProcessorRevised.Document);
document.SaveDocument("comparison.docx", DocumentFormat.Docx);

VB.NET

Imports DevExpress.XtraRichEdit
Imports DevExpress.XtraRichEdit.API.Native

Private wordProcessor = New RichEditDocumentServer()
Private wordProcessorRevised = New RichEditDocumentServer()
wordProcessor.LoadDocument("C:\Documents\sample text original.docx")
wordProcessorRevised.LoadDocument("C:\Documents\sample text revised.docx")

Dim document As Document = wordProcessor.Document.Compare(wordProcessorRevised.Document)
document.SaveDocument("comparison.docx", DocumentFormat.Docx)