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How to differentiate between two .snk file having same name?

I have two project having .snk file with the same name? These files were added by previous developers. I am not sure whether the two files are same or not. How do I know if same .snk file is being used in these two projects?

Solution

  • If the two .snk files are the same, they should be byte-for-byte identical. FC is a program that is included with Windows that you can use it to compare two files.

    C:\>fc /B path\to\the\first\.snk path\to\the\second.snk

    (The /B indicates a binary comparison instead of a text-based comparison.)

    If the output is

    FC: no differences encountered

    the files are identical. If the output looks more like

    00000038: 44 57
0000003A: 72 6E

    then FC is reporting the differences at a byte level. The two files are not the same and you'll need to figure out what to do from then on, like pick one and use it exclusively.