WinDiff is a graphical

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program published by

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, distributed with

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Support Tools, certain versions of

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, and as source-code with the

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code samples. WinDiff was included in the Windows SDK (previously known as the

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, later Platform SDK) since 1992 until Microsoft Windows SDK for

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and

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(a.k.a. Windows SDK 7.1). Because portions of the Windows SDK were shipped in Visual Studio, WinDiff was also included in Visual Studio until

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. WinDiff was removed from the

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SDK and therefore is not included in

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or any later version. A number of unofficial standalone uploads of the program remain available.

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* — Includes WinDiff * * Unofficial upload a
Grigsoft.com
* Unofficial upload a
ComputerPerformance.co.uk
File comparison tools Microsoft development tools Microsoft Visual Studio {{programming-software-stub

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