DiffDog Professional

The dedicated differencing program created for developers and power users.
Altova DiffDog 2009 is the dedicated differencing program created for developers and power users.

This easy, powerful synchronization tool quickly compares source code or text-based files and any directories, then highlights differences in its visual interface. Merge content with a click of the mouse or open and edit files and folders, then instantly re-compare. Let DiffDog 2007 track down the differences in your development projects.

Powerful File and Directory Differencing

In the development world, reconciling multiple versions of files and directories is a daily requirement. Whether you're working with HTML files, Java source code directories, XML document frameworks, or any other collection of text-based files, managing multiple file versions in a team environment can be a taxing problem.

Developers and power users need a tool for identifying differences quickly and easily, so that they can focus on more productive tasks. Imagine being able to compare source code files in an instant and merge changes with a quick the click of your mouse. Imagine visualizing the differences in two versions of a 30 GB directory instantly, then opening and editing different files side-by-side. And imagine being able to synch-up files on your laptop and desktop computers in a matter of seconds. Altova DiffDog 2007 is a very affordable tool that allows you to do all this and more.

The latest in Altova's line of award-winning developer tools, DiffDog 2007 is an advanced differencing utility for comparing and merging files, folders, and directories. Altova DiffDog 2007 is available in Standard and Professional editions. Both editions support comparing and merging directories and any type of text file. Additionally DiffDog 2007 Professional Edition provides unique XML-aware differencing functionality � a must for developers working with XML.

In keeping with Altova's reputation for providing robust yet user-friendly developer tools, the DiffDog interface is as powerful as it's easy to use.

DiffDog indicates differences visually, allowing you to quickly identify changes. For optimal efficiency, you can edit documents directly within the differencing interface, merge changes, and instantly re-compare the edited files.

DiffDog provides the same powerful capabilities for directory comparisons, allowing you to compare and merge directories, and open and edit the file pairs directly from the directory comparison display.

Intelligent XML Differencing

In addition to text file and directory comparisons, DiffDog 2009 supports intelligent XML differencing features and options, such as DTD / schema-based validation, well-formedness checking, intelligent entry helpers, and much more to help you compare and merge XML files in an intelligent manner.

The DiffDog 2009 XML differencing capabilities are completely customizable. For example, you can specify if entities should be resolved, if namespace prefixes, whitespace, CDATA, processing instructions, comments, or the ordering of attributes/child elements should be ignored or not, how to visualize differences, and so on.

DiffDog 2009 also allows you to compare XML files in advanced text view or the indispensable grid view popularized by Altova XMLSpy�.

Main features of DiffDog Professional:

XML Editing & Validation

Well-formedness checking

Validation (DTD & schema-based)

Intelligent Editing (DTD/Schema based entry-help)

Find & Replace with enhanced XML capabilities

Code-completion & syntax-help

Pretty-printing of XML files

Enhanced Grid & Table View

XML Differencing

Compare single files

Compare entire directories

Two comparison modes: textual or XML-aware

Multiple options for XML-aware comparisons, such as entity resolution, ignore attribute order, ignore comments, etc.

Show differences in Text or Grid view

Merge option to help migrate changes from one file to the other

File Comparison

Comparing any text files

Differences indicated with colored highlights and connecting lines

Adjustable colors for indication of differences

Comparing files in advanced text view

Word wrap

White space indicators

Line feed indicators

Configurable differencing settings for different file extensions

Synchronized vertical scrolling

Synchronized horizontal scrolling

Support for multiple open file/directory comparisons

Command line operations

Provides list of recently compared file pairs

Source code conformant syntax coloring

Expand/collapse all folding nodes

Bookmarks & bookmark margin

Visual indentation guides

Text-folding margin

Option to show differences within lines

Comparing XML files in grid / table view

Two comparison modes: textual or XML-aware

Multiple options for XML-aware comparisons: entity resolution, ignore attribute order, ignore comments, etc.

Export differencing results in XML format

Export differencing results in Unix-diff format

Ignore particular elements or attributes during XML differencing

Directory Comparison

Compared directories displayed in expandable/collapsible trees

Compare directory components by file size and date or by file content

Differences indicated with color-coding and icons

Expand/collapse all folders in directory

Support for multiple open file/directory comparisons

Ability to start file comparisons from within directory comparison

Command line operations

Provides list of recently compared directory pairs

Automatic re-load of directory changed externally

Synchronization capabilities (copy/insert/delete)

Support of filters (ignore, compare only)

Source-Code & Text File Editing & Merging

Bi-directional merging of individual differences

Text View with syntax-coloring

Line Number Margin

Text-folding Margin

Bookmarks & Bookmark Margin

Visual indentation guides

Find & Replace based on Regular Expressions

Direct editing of files in File Comparision window

Files compared dynamically during editing

Unlimited undo for editing and merging

Find & replace based on regular expressions

Reload original file from disk

Automatic back-up of original file

Automatic re-load of file changed externally

Connectivity

Filesystem access

Platforms

Microsoft Windows application (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003)

International support

Unicode (UTF-7, UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO-10646, UCS-2, UCS-4)

All major Characterset Encodings (ASCII, ISO-8859, CJKV, etc.)


Requirements of DiffDog Professional:

Internet connection for the trial key


Limitations of DiffDog Professional:

30-day trial

What's New in This Release:

Database Content Comparison and Merging

Similar to functionality available in DatabaseSpy 2009, DiffDog 2009 Enterprise Edition allows users to select, compare, and merge data bi-directionally between database tables.

DiffDog users can easily compare the contents of tables in different schemas of the same database type, for instance to locate and update changes between the live version and a backup copy of a SQL Server databases. Or, users can even select tables in different database types, in order to compare and merge the contents of a table in an Oracle 11g database with its corresponding table in MySQL, for example.

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