Quote Originally Posted by LaVolpe View Post
That is also a reason why the scanner does not attempt to validate that a Public method in a class, usercontrol, etc is in zombie state. It would require the scanner to track usage of objects/variants and more just to see if one of them were declared as the class, form, etc and determine what methods it may be calling. For example, we can assign a class instance to a variable declared as: Object, item in Object(), Variant, item in Variant(), or a Collection item. And from any of those, we can call any public method directly from the object. To make it even more daunting, is that is possible that the reference is passed yet to another routine where, within that other routine, the public method is eventually called from that item.
Yes, this is impossible to track. What *is* possible is to detect method names used late-bound in a global list. Then if a public method is not directly used early-bound (which is easier to detect) its *name* can be searched in the global late-bound calls list and if not found there too it's probably dead code (unless it's a public method of a public class of an ActiveX DLL/OCX and can be used by external projects).

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