Jeremy Simmons: The Blog

I use C# on a daily basis to do most of my coding.

I really don't like #region directives. It's not just a love-hate thing. I really hate it. I have a compulsive need to eliminate them. It's extra fluff that really doesn't need to be in the in the code to make the code any more meaningful. It doesn't add any value to the executable bits.

Using Find/Replace always gets tedius. Why not just remove all instances of it throughout the solution in one action?

Imports System
Imports EnvDTE
Imports EnvDTE80
Imports EnvDTE90
Imports System.Diagnostics

Public Module CodeHelper

    Public Sub RemoveRegions()
        RemoveThisRegexFromSolution("\#region.+")
        RemoveThisRegexFromSolution("\#endregion")
    End Sub

    Public Sub RemoveThisRegexFromSolution(ByVal findRegex As String)

        DTE.Windows.Item(Constants.vsWindowKindFindReplace).Activate() 'Find and Replace
        DTE.Find.FindWhat = findRegex
        DTE.Find.ReplaceWith = ""
        DTE.Find.Target = vsFindTarget.vsFindTargetFiles
        DTE.Find.MatchCase = False
        DTE.Find.MatchWholeWord = False
        DTE.Find.MatchInHiddenText = True
        DTE.Find.PatternSyntax = vsFindPatternSyntax.vsFindPatternSyntaxRegExpr
        DTE.Find.SearchPath = "Entire Solution"
        DTE.Find.SearchSubfolders = True
        DTE.Find.KeepModifiedDocumentsOpen = False
        DTE.Find.FilesOfType = "*.*"
        DTE.Find.ResultsLocation = vsFindResultsLocation.vsFindResults1
        DTE.Find.Action = vsFindAction.vsFindActionReplaceAll

        DTE.Find.Execute() ' Do it

        DTE.Windows.Item(Constants.vsWindowKindFindReplace).Close() ' Close the box

    End Sub

End Module