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Value Tracking

ReSharper | Inspect | Value Origin/Destination
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Value Tracking helps you investigate value of a particular type and possibly determine how a certain incorrect value might have passed to a given point in your program, and where it might be passed next. This helps you investigate possible NullReferenceException, inappropriate behavior, and reasons why you get incorrect values.

Investigate member's value origins

  1. Place the caret at the name of a method, property, variable, field, and so on, whose value you want to investigate.

  2. In the main menu, choose ReSharper | Inspect | Value Origin or press Control+Shift+Alt+A and choose Value Origin in the Inspect This list.

  3. In the Inspection Results window that opens, you can investigate possible origins of the value.

    Value origin hierarchy in the Inspection Results window

Investigate member's value destinations

  1. Place the caret at the name of a method, property, variable, field, and so on, whose value you want to investigate.

  2. In the main menu, choose ReSharper | Inspect | Value Destination or press Control+Shift+Alt+A and choose Value Destination in the Inspect This list.

  3. The Inspection Results window opens where you can investigate possible destinations of the value.

    Value destination hierarchy in the Inspection Results window

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This feature is supported in the following languages and technologies:

Language: C#Language: VB.NETLanguage: C++Language: HTMLLanguage: ASP.NETLanguage: RazorLanguage: JavaScriptLanguage: TypeScriptLanguage: CSSLanguage: XMLLanguage: XAMLLanguage: ResxLanguage: Build ScriptsLanguage: ProtobufLanguage: JSON
Feature is available in C# Feature is not available in Visual Basic .NET Feature is not available in C++ Feature is not available in HTML Feature is not available in ASP.NET Feature is not available in Razor Feature is not available in JavaScript Feature is not available in TypeScript Feature is not available in CSS Feature is not available in XML Feature is not available in XAML Feature is not available in Resource files Feature is not available in build script files Feature is not available in Protobuf Feature is not available in JSON
Last modified: 08 March 2021