Find empty methods in visual studio

Question

How do you find all the empty methods of a specific type defined in a project? an example use case would be to find all empty Page_Load methods defined in an Asp.Net application.

Answer 1

In the visual studio find-tool, set it to use Regular Expressions. Use this expression to find empty methods.

void\ .*\(*\)(\ |(\r\n))*{(\ |(\r\n))*}

To find empty Page_Load methods:

void\ (Page_Load).*\(*\)(\ |(\r\n))*{(\ |(\r\n))*}

All these approaches would work for "void" methods. For other types, you can change the expression or further generalize the expression to match any kind of return type.