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Author Topic: Detect unused code (C#)  (Read 10070 times)

Ruffnekk

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Detect unused code (C#)
« on: March 08, 2007, 01:29 AM »
I am looking for a tool/trick/technique to detect any unused methods/functions in my C# application. It's quite a large application (Argus) and it has over 37 code files, totalling about 25000 lines of code. I want to run a tool or something to see if I have any code that is unused (never called). When I'm coding I'm in another mindstate and tend to forget to delete subs or functions I don't need anymore. I organize my code into regions and comments them, but still it's a tedious job to do this manually... Using "Find all references" has helped me already, but that's not very useful if one unused method calls another unused method and so on... Any ideas about this?
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Re: Detect unused code (C#)
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2007, 04:33 AM »
FXCop can do that, I think..
http://www.gotdotnet.com/Team/FxCop/

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Re: Detect unused code (C#)
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2007, 04:37 AM »
And to think I already have FXCop installed  :-[ Thanks PhilKC!  :P
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Re: Detect unused code (C#)
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2007, 05:22 AM »
By the way, this is called "code coveragew" analysis in the world of program analysis/optimization/debugging, and is used often to make sure that all of the code is tested thoroughly.

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Re: Detect unused code (C#)
« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2007, 06:39 AM »
Thanks for the info mouser.

I'm now checking the assemblies with FxCop and so far I had over 1000 issues, which I will solve before 1.0 comes out :D. Good learning practice and very useful! I just hadn't thought about it before until PhilKC reminded me ;)
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