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How to compare the contents of two resource files (* .res)?

I am working on a vb project that uses a resource file (* .res) to map two values.

Now I need to compare two resource files (existing and edited), I have the software "Beyond Compare" and "Win-Merge" for comparison. but the RES file opens only in Visual Studio, and the contents of the RES file cannot be copied right away. and since it uses some script (or encryption) in its contents .. it cannot be opened by any other editors

now because of what I have to do a manual comparison, which is a daunting task. File size is too large. An alternative was to use file comparison software, where they do not support this file extension.

Can you help me with extracting the contents of the file?

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Download a resource editor (e.g. ResEdit ) and convert it to a script ( .rc) resource file .

The script resource is no worse than a text file, it can be copied and edited using notepad

Two files can be compared directly outside of the comparison.

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