How to remove all useless new lines in automatic properties in an entire solution

How to remove all useless new lines in automatic properties in an entire solution

September 22, 2010 7:03 pm

Say you have someone on the team that for whatever reason keeps changing back the corresponding VS settings (or even worse, wasting keystrokes) and formats automatic properties like so:

public string Foo
{
    get;
    private set;
}

Say you got tired of freakin’ fixing this manually every time to the much more readable and less wasteful default format:

public string Foo { get; private set; }

Well, in order to replace each and every match for the wasteful version with the concise, readable and default version, just do a File & Replace in all files in the solution, using Regular Expressions matching, and use:

Find What: {:i}\n:b*\{\n:b*{.*}get;\n:b*{.*}set;\n:b*\}

Replace With: \1 \{ \2get; \3set; \}

``

This will even preserve the property visibility modifiers.

Enjoy!

/kzu