Is there a better alternative to Visual Studio's compare tool for comparing directories?

Question

I have two nearly identical folders. I need to compare the contents of the files in each folder. Visual Studio's compare tool does a nice jobs of this, but if there is even an extra white space it shows up in the results. I am looking for a compare tool that does the same thing but allows me to do some filtering of the results.

Answer 1

WinMerge allows to configure comparison of whitespace characters and have some more options of ignore for common cases. It can compare folders also.