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Christian
Christian

Reputation: 2967

How can I find all static variables in my c# project?

I want to run some part of my command line programm in parallel with multiple threads and I am afraid that there might be some static variable left that I must fix (e.g. by making it [ThreadStatic]). Is there any tool or easy way to find these in my project?

Of course simply searching for "static" does not help much: I have lots of static methods that work great and finde with any number of threads

Upvotes: 18

Views: 6333

Answers (5)

Amir H KH
Amir H KH

Reputation: 361

First of all you have to open Find in Files windows from Edit->Find and Replace->Find in Files menu or Ctrl+Shift+F shortcut keys.

Then you have to use this regular expressions to search all of yours static variables in Current Project or in Entire Solution :

static \w*[ \t]*\b(\w+|[\w-[0-9]]\w)\b[ \t]+\b(\w+|[\w-[0-9]]\w*)\b[ \t]*[=;]

Mind check the option Use Regular Expressions in Find options section.

This regex also supported readonly, virtual, ...

Upvotes: 4

Andy Kong
Andy Kong

Reputation: 300

Note: dasblinkenlight's answer works only on Visual Studio 2010 and older.

Below is the translation for Visual Studio 2012 and newer:

static(?([^\r\n])\s)+(\b(_\w+|[\w-[0-9_]]\w*)\b)(?([^\r\n])\s)+(\b(_\w+|[\w-[0-9_]]\w*)\b)(?([^\r\n])\s)*[=;]

Translation was made referencing: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2k3te2cs(v=vs.110).aspx

Upvotes: 18

Sergey Kalinichenko
Sergey Kalinichenko

Reputation: 727047

Searching your files for static:b+:i:b+:i:b*[=;] with regexp option in Visual Studio should turn up static variables for you. It will also bring operators ==, but they should be relatively easy to filter out visually.

Upvotes: 12

sll
sll

Reputation: 62544

Besides of IDE tricks a real warrior's way would be using Assembly.Load() to load application DLL into the memory and then using reflection search through all the types for public/private/protected static fields. :)

Upvotes: 3

Zenexer
Zenexer

Reputation: 19611

The easiest way to find all of your static fields in one place is likely going to be via the Class View panel in Visual Studio (Ctrl + W, C by default in C# mode--also under thew View menu).

You can set some primitive filters. Unfortunately, static is not one of them. However, you might be able to use the available filters to slim down the results, based on your coding style.

Alternatively, you could make a program that uses reflection to pull out each static field and check its attributes. If ThreadStaticAttribute is not among them, have it spit out a message. (This is along the lines of another answer, from which you might be able to obtain more details.)

Upvotes: 1

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