StringDifferenceTypes Enum

Definition

Namespace:

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Differencing

Assembly:

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Data.dll

Package:

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Data v17.11.260

A bitwise combination of the enumeration values to use when computing differences with the various methods in IHierarchicalStringDifferenceService.

This enumeration supports a bitwise combination of its member values.

public enum class StringDifferenceTypes

public enum class StringDifferenceTypes

enum StringDifferenceTypes

[System.Flags]
public enum StringDifferenceTypes

[<System.Flags>]
type StringDifferenceTypes = 

Public Enum StringDifferenceTypes

Inheritance

Enum

StringDifferenceTypes

Attributes

FlagsAttribute

Fields

Name	Value	Description
Line	1	Compute the line difference.
Word	2	Compute the word difference.
Character	4	Compute the character difference.

Remarks

See the comments on IHierarchicalStringDifferenceService for an explanation of how differences are computed. Since computing differences can be slow with large data sets, you should not use the Character type unless the given text is relatively small.