Duplicates Finder (.NET)

Include

Use newline-delimited Ant-like wildcards relative to checkout root to specify the files to be included into the duplicates search. Visual Studio solution files are parsed and replaced by all source files from all projects within a solution. Example: src\MySolution.sln

Exclude

Enter newline-delimited Ant-like wildcards to exclude files from the duplicates search (for example, * / generated{*}{}.cs). The entries should be relative to checkout root.

Code fragments comparison

Use these options to define which elements of the source code should be discarded when searching for repetitive code fragments. Code fragments can be considered duplicated, if they are structurally similar, but contain different variables, fields, methods, types or literals. Refer to the samples below:

Discard namespaces

If this option is checked, similar contents with different namespace specifications will be recognized as duplicates.

NLog.Logger.GetInstance().Log("abcd"); A.Log.Logger.GetInstance().Log("abcd");

Discard literals

If this option is checked, similar lines of code with different literals will be recognized as duplicates.

myStatusBar.SetText("Not Logged In"); myStatusBar.SetText("Logging In...");

Discard local variables

If this option is checked, similar code fragments with different local variable names will be recognized as duplicates.

int a = 5; a += 6; int b = 5; b += 6;

Discard class fields name

If this option is checked, the similar code fragments with different field names will be recognized as duplicates.

Console.WriteLine(myFoo); Console.WriteLine(myBar); ... where myFoo and myBar are declared in the containing class

Discard types

If this option is checked, similar content with different type names will be recognized as duplicates. That includes all possible type references (as shown below):

Logger.GetInstance("text"); OtherUtility.GetInstance("text"); ... where Logger and OtherUtility are both type names (thus GetInstance is a static method in both classes) Logger a = (Logger) GetObject("object"); OtherUtility a = (OtherUtility) GetObject("object"); public int SomeMethod(string param); public void SomeMethod(object[] param);

Ignore duplicates with complexity simpler than

Use this field to specify the lowest level of complexity of code blocks to be taken into consideration when detecting duplicates.

Skip files with opening comment

Enter newline-delimited keywords to exclude files that contain the keyword in a file's opening comments from the duplicates search.

Skip regions by message substring

Enter newline-delimited keywords that exclude regions that contain the keyword in the message substring from the duplicates search. Entering "generated code", for example, will skip regions containing "Windows Form Designer generated code".

Debug

Check this option to include debug messages in the build log and publish the file with additional logs (dotnet-tools-dupfinder.log) as artifact.