The Duplicates Finder (.NET) Build Runner based on ReSharper Command Line Tools is intended for catching similar code fragments and providing a report on discovered repetitive blocks of C# and Visual Basic .NET code in Visual Studio 2003, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2015 solutions.
This page contains reference information about the following Duplicates Finder (.Net) Build Runner fields:
Sources
Option
Description
Include
Use newline-delimited Ant-like wildcards relative to the 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 the checkout root.
Duplicate Searcher Settings
Option
Description
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.
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. These include 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 lower than
Use this field to specify the lowest level of complexity of code blocks to be taken into consideration when detecting duplicates.
Skip files by opening comment
Enter newline-delimited keywords to exclude files that contain the keyword in the 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".
Enable debug output
Check this option to include debug messages in the build log and publish the file with additional logs (dotnet-tools-dupfinder.log) as an artifact.