Question

One of the things that I find hard to keep consistent is the use of int vs Int32 and bool vs Boolean etcetera.

I find it simpler to identify all types by their case and color syntax highlighting…

List<int>

vs

List<Int32>

The latter is cleaner and upholds consistency. A lot of code is littered with both and I’m looking for a refactoring tool to change them all.

Are there any tools that allow me to change all C# built-in types to their .NET Framework types?

Answer 1

I eventually wrote a macro to do this

Option Strict Off
Option Explicit Off
Imports System
Imports EnvDTE
Imports EnvDTE80
Imports EnvDTE90
Imports EnvDTE90a
Imports EnvDTE100
Imports System.Diagnostics

Public Module ReplaceCSharpBuiltInTypesWithTheirFrameworkTypes
    Sub ReplaceCSharpBuiltInTypesWithTheirFrameworkTypes()
        Dim dictionary As New Collections.Generic.Dictionary(Of String, String)
        dictionary.Add("bool", "Boolean")
        dictionary.Add("byte", "Byte")
        dictionary.Add("sbyte", "SByte")
        dictionary.Add("char", "Char")
        dictionary.Add("decimal", "Decimal")
        dictionary.Add("double", "Double")
        dictionary.Add("float", "Single")
        dictionary.Add("int", "Int32")
        dictionary.Add("uint", "UInt32")
        dictionary.Add("long", "Int64")
        dictionary.Add("ulong", "UInt64")
        dictionary.Add("object", "Object")
        dictionary.Add("short", "Int16")
        dictionary.Add("ushort", "UInt16")
        dictionary.Add("string", "String")
        For Each key In dictionary.Keys
            DTE.Find.FindWhat = key
            DTE.Find.ReplaceWith = dictionary(key)
            DTE.Find.Target = vsFindTarget.vsFindTargetCurrentDocument
            DTE.Find.MatchCase = True
            DTE.Find.MatchWholeWord = True
            DTE.Find.MatchInHiddenText = False
            DTE.Find.PatternSyntax = vsFindPatternSyntax.vsFindPatternSyntaxLiteral
            DTE.Find.ResultsLocation = vsFindResultsLocation.vsFindResultsNone
            DTE.Find.Action = vsFindAction.vsFindActionReplaceAll
            DTE.Find.Execute()
        Next
    End Sub
End Module