Question

My C# code has a lot of statement like “this.Name=…”. In order to make my code neat, I let the text editor to replace all “this.” to nothing. The code still worked. But later I fund it caused me a lot of new troubles for I wrote some statements like:

this.Name = Name; // the second Name is a parameter.

After the replacement, it became:

Name = Name;

Now, I met too much code. How to find the suspicious code like “Name = Name;” by Regex in VS 2010?

Thanks,

Ying

Answer 1

Why would you want to use Regex when you can simply compile the solution and look for the CS1717 warning:

Assignment made to same variable; did
you mean to assign something else?

Also note that in C# it is a good convention to have your parameters start with lowercase letter.