How do you go about finding unused icons, images, strings in .resx files that may have become ‘orphaned’ and are no longer required?
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How do you go about finding unused icons, images, strings in .resx files that may have become ‘orphaned’ and are no longer required?
This is no information an algorithm can reliably compute. The inspected program could fetch a list of all resources and do something with them, like letting the user choose from several icons.
Your best bet is probably to search for all references to your resource-access API of choice and inspect those manually. Using
grep/sedyou might be able to reduce the sites you have to inspect manually by handling all ‘easy’ ones where a simple string is used.