How do you find all the empty methods of a specific type defined in a project? an example use case would be to find all empty Page_Load methods defined in an Asp.Net application.
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1possible duplicate of [Visual Studio 2008 / C# : How to find dead code in a project?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2020297/visual-studio-2008-c-sharp-how-to-find-dead-code-in-a-project), [Find unused code](http://stackoverflow.com/q/245963), [Is there a tool for finding unreferenced functions (dead, obsolete code) in a C# app?](http://stackoverflow.com/q/65585), [What tools and techniques do you use to find dead code in .NET?](http://stackoverflow.com/q/162641) – Cody Gray - on strike Jul 28 '13 at 13:35
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1@CodyGray: I don't think this is a duplicate of any of those; this question deals with empty methods that *are* being used (as event handlers) and thus *aren't* dead code. – icktoofay Jul 28 '13 at 21:35
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In the visual studio find-tool, set it to use Regular Expressions. Use this expression to find empty methods.
void\ .*\(*\)(\ |(\r\n))*{(\ |(\r\n))*}
To find empty Page_Load methods:
void\ (Page_Load).*\(*\)(\ |(\r\n))*{(\ |(\r\n))*}
All these approaches would work for "void" methods. For other types, you can change the expression or further generalize the expression to match any kind of return type.
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Even if you answered your question yourself please mark it as solved. I searched for this and my first look told me this question wasnt solved in here so I had to test it. Its a benifit for everyone having a green hook showing a working solution :) – C4d Jul 28 '16 at 10:54
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to improve ravinsp's answer a bit, if you want the 'find all' to actually hilight the entire method (so you can do a search and replace to remove them), use regex
^.*void\ .*\(*\)(\ |(\r\n))*{(\ |(\r\n))*}
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