What you have been waiting for. Perform a deep compare of any two .NET objects using reflection. Shows the differences between the two objects.
Compatible with .NET Framework 4.0 and higher. .NET Core 1.3 and higher. Portable Class Library version works with .NET 4.0+, Silverlight 5+, Windows Phone 8+, Windows RT 8+, Xamarin iOS, and Xamarin Droid.
http://www.nuget.org/packages/CompareNETObjects
Install with NuGet Package Manager Console
Install-Package CompareNETObjects
Install with .NET CLI
dotnet add package CompareNETObjects
- Compare Children (on by default)
- Handling for Trees with Children Pointing To Parents (Circular References)
- Compares Publicly Visible Class Fields and Properties
- Compares Private Fields and Properties (off by default)
- Source code in C#
- NUnit Test Project Included with over 200+ unit tests
- Ability to load settings from a config file for use with powershell
- Ability to pass in the configuration
- Ability to save and load the configuration as json
- Test Extensions .ShouldCompare and .ShouldNotCompare
- Several configuration options for comparing private elements, ignoring specific elements, including specific elements.
- Property and Field Info reflection caching for increased performance
- Rich Differences List or simple DifferencesString
- Difference Callback
- Supports custom comparison functions
- ElapsedMilliseconds indicates how long the comparison took
- Thread Safe
- Beyond Compare Report
- WinMerge Report
- CSV Report
- User Friendly Report
- Ability to IgnoreCollectionOrder to compare lists of different lengths
- Ability to ignore indexer comparison
- Ability to ignore types
- Ability to ignore specific members by name or by wildcard
- Interface member filtering
- Ability to treat string.empty and null as equal
- Case insensitive option for strings
- Ignore millisecond differences between DateTime values or DateTimeOffset values
- Precision for double or decimal values
- Classes
- Dynamic (Expando objects are supported but not DynamicObject)
- Anonymous Types
- Primitive Types (String, Int, Boolean, etc.)
- Structs
- IList Objects
- Collections
- Single and Multi-Dimensional Arrays
- Immutable Arrays
- IDictionary Objects
- Enums
- Timespans
- Guids
- Classes that Implement IList with Integer Indexers
- DataSet Data
- DataTable Data
- DataRow Data
- DataColumn Differences
- LinearGradient
- HashSet
- URI
- IPEndPoint
- Types of Type (RuntimeType)
- StringBuilder
- Custom Collections with Non-Integer Indexers cannot be compared.
- DynamicObject type is not supported but will be implemented in 2020 when the library is versioned to .NET Framework 4.5
- When ignoring the collection order, the collection matching spec cannot be a field on a child class. It has to be a property or field of the class.
- The Portable and .NET Standard builds cannot compare private fields or properties on a classs. This is a security restriction by Microsoft.
- ElapsedMilliseconds does not work for Portable and .NET Standard builds as there is no StopWatch in those frameworks.
https://github.com/GregFinzer/Compare-Net-Objects/wiki/Getting-Started
https://github.com/GregFinzer/Compare-Net-Objects/wiki/Licensing