Finding "not used methods"

[Anders K. Jacobsen [DK]]

Hey

I have been givin the job the extend an asp.net c# application with and
extensive but very poor documented business layer. There are aprox 1200
methods like: FindAvailAmount, GetAllEmployee etc.

But as far as I can see many of the methods aint ever used. Is there a way
to traverse the layer and name methods that never called from any location
in the source code?

Looking forward to your suggestion
Anders

 

[Guest]

Hi Anders,
if you are using Visual Studio then I would recomend a plugin called
ReSharper http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/ it can be used for refactoring
and will highlight methods, variables, namespace imports that are not used
anywhere in the code. I find it very useful.

Hope that helps
Mark R Dawson

 

[Larry Lard]

If I remember right, FxCop includes a check for uncalled methods - and
it's free

 

[Guest]

If I remember right, FxCop includes a check for uncalled methods - and
it's free

and always be careful of removing the *reported* unused methods if you have
any calling of methods via reflection!

 

[Anders K. Jacobsen [DK]]

and always be careful of removing the *reported* unused methods if you

have any calling of methods via reflection!

Good point

Thanks for the suggestions. I´ll look into all of them.

Thanks!
Anders