hi,

i have a code im trying to understand but its hard for me to without how the form looks like? can someone make a form how the code i provide?screenshot it that would be fine.

im not sure where would you implement this code to? i was thinkin to the button command name under Compare? but i cant get it working?
thanks

code:

    Private Function CompareFiles(ByVal filePathOne As String, ByVal filePathTwo As String) As Boolean



        Dim fileOneByte As Integer

        Dim fileTwoByte As Integer



        Dim fileOneStream As FileStream

        Dim fileTwoStream As FileStream



        ' If user has selected the same file as file one and file two....

        If (filePathOne = filePathTwo) Then

            ' Files are the same.

            Me.ResultsRichTextBox.Text = "Files are the same; file one is file two."

            Return True

        End If



        ' Open a FileStream for each file.

        fileOneStream = New FileStream(filePathOne, FileMode.Open)

        fileTwoStream = New FileStream(filePathTwo, FileMode.Open)



        ' If the files are not the same length...

        If (fileOneStream.Length <> fileTwoStream.Length) Then

            fileOneStream.Close()

            fileTwoStream.Close()

            ' File's are not equal.

            Me.ResultsRichTextBox.Text = "Files are not the same length; they are not equal."

            Return False

        End If



        Dim areFilesEqual As Boolean = True



        ' Loop through bytes in the files until

        ' a byte in file one <> a byte in file two

        ' OR

        ' end of the file one is reached.

        Do

            ' Read one byte from each file.

            fileOneByte = fileOneStream.ReadByte()

            fileTwoByte = fileTwoStream.ReadByte()

            If fileOneByte <> fileTwoByte Then

                ' Files are not equal; byte in file one <> byte in file two.

                Me.ResultsRichTextBox.Text = "Files are not equal; contents are different."

                areFilesEqual = False

                Exit Do

            End If

        Loop While (fileOneByte <> -1)



        ' Close the FileStreams.

        fileOneStream.Close()

        fileTwoStream.Close()



        Return areFilesEqual



     End Function

In the most basic form, you need a form with 2 text boxes and a submit button.

Obviously you would have to type 2 file paths into the textboxes, which isn't ideal, but it would work.

hth.

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what if i want to include 2 more buttons command where i can press on one of them and prompts me to browse for the files instead of typing it??


if it was typing it, does it mean i can open any files in my pc as long it exist??

Yes. You could use a file browser to get two files. Here is a link that demonstrates how to do this:
http://www.tech-funda.com/?p=25



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i have tried with the button you told me but its display at the bottom of the screen i cant put it anywhere i want??

it does not display it when i run it??

im using vb2005

ludasky,

The file browser is a form component. It does not have any GUI itself. You need to create a textbox and a button. The button click will call a method on the file browser component that opens the browse dialog. I believe the return value of that method is a string containing the path to the selected file. Check the documentation on that component for specifics.

-Peter
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