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  1. Oct 29th, 2009, 01:31 PM #1
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    Is there a VB.NET visual studio plugin that does this?

    Today, I must have removed possibly a dozen unused methods out of my codebase. Methods that may at one point have done something, but now don't.

    A few are Private methods, which are easy to spot since they're relevant only to the class they're in, but many are Friend/Public methods which were probably left in because nobody did a "Find All References" on them to find out if anything in the solution called them.

    Is there a plugin for visual studio that would allow me to perhaps scan an entire class object, or perhaps an entire project/solution for orphaned methods and functions like this? Ones that nothing in the entire solution is calling?

    Just curious as I continue my housecleaning. I almost spent what would have been several hours "updating" a method which only by the grace of simple curiosity revealed itself to not even being used.
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    Re: Is there a VB.NET visual studio plugin that does this?

    try MZTools, CodeRush and ReSharper.... I think they each have dead code detection....

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    Re: Is there a VB.NET visual studio plugin that does this?

    Also, try VS2010. I realize it's a bit premature for that, but there are better features than just Find All References, and they may be sufficient for your purpose, though I don't believe they will do a comprehensive scan across a class.
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