As I see it (but as said it's just my personal opinion) .Net=EVIL, but of course if it is not possible (or not convenient) to avoid using it, it is fine as well :), but it is - still IMHO - the worst possible choice (if a choice is available).
As a generic (again personal) opinion anything that has "dual panes" (not necessarily MDI) is useful when comparing file lists, think of *any* OFM :
http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/index.shtml
I am not sure to have fully understood the .csv (actually .tsv) file issue, I mean, does FTK imager actually produce plain text Tab delimited files in the size of hundreds of megabytes? <img src="images/smiles/icon_eek.gif" alt="Shocked" title="Shocked" />
A Java based solution will most probably be slowish (and possibly cause another series of issues with the exact Java runtime needed/available), OT, but not much, one of the few programs that I know of that can actually manage very large "plain" databases is actually written in Java (andisslowish):
http://record-editor.sourceforge.net/Record02.htm
I'll have a look if I can find a suitable "native" component.
I was also (laterally <img src="images/smiles/icon_eek.gif" alt="Shocked" title="Shocked" /> ) thinking about *something else*, like mixing (liberally) these two projects:
http://code.google.com/p/mssqlfs/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/plisgo/
but of course it is not worth it for this single "quick and dirty" app you devised.
jaclaz
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