Question

Resharper warns me when parts of my code are never used; this is very helpful.

However, I have quite a few classes that are not referenced by other code directly. These classes are used in the dependency injection (DI) configuration only.

I use spring.net for DI. The DI configuration is in xml format.

Is there any way I can tell Resharper to use the DI files for the inspection of unused classes?

I know I can suppress the Resharper warning using something like:

// ReSharper disable UnusedMember.Global
public class TheClass : IInterfaceWiredUsingSpringDI
// ReSharper restore UnusedMember.Global

But I don’t like this very much – it’s difficult to read and I don’t really want to suppress the warning.

Note:

There is a less obtrusive and more readable way to suppress the warning, which I found on the jetbrains forum. When you define this custom attribute:

[MeansImplicitUse]
public class IoCAttribute : Attribute { }

Then you can suppress the warning:

[IoC]
public class TheClass : IInterfaceWiredUsingSpringDI 

Answer 1

I don’t believe so. Spent a bit of time trying to solve a similar frustration with IOC and ReSharper to no avail, just doesn’t facilitate it as far as I can tell.