Desktop GUI Application

After creating or opening a comparison set, the results are presented in several panes presented below:

Assembly Navigation Pane

This pane shows the assemblies found during the comparison:

The assemblies listed are those found during the comparison. If you selected a list of files to compare, only one assembly will be listed which represents all files in the list. If you selected a list of directories to compare, all the assemblies found in those directories will be listed by name.

The color of the assembly indicates the changes found in it:

Gray	No changes were found in all versions of the assembly
Black	Non-breaking changes were found in at least one version of the assembly
Red	Breaking changes were found in at least one version of the assembly

To browse changes in the assembly, click on it. The comparison results will be displayed in the content pane, described below.

Main Content Pane

This pane shows the detailed breakdown of all types found in one set of versions of an assembly:

This pane shows a tree view with all types found in the leftmost column. Each assembly in the comparison is represented as a column in the view, in the order that they were specified.

Each cell in the grid then shows a brief text description of the type of change (if any). Breaking changes are shown in red text.

To view details on any particular change, click the cell where the change occurred. To view details on each occurrance of an item in each assembly in the comparison, click on the item name in the leftmost column.

Detail Pane

This pane shows the detailed breakdown of the item you selected in the content pane.

This pane displays a description of the changed item(s) in the cell you selected in the content pane. If you selected the leftmost named item in the content pane, this detail view will show each occurrance of the item in every assembly in the comparison.

This pane also contains a tab which displays log information. This information is useful when troubleshooting errors or warnings generated during the comparison process.

Command Line Arguments

The BitDiffer GUI application supports the same command line arguments as the Command Line application.