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Helps you find and eliminate unused images & files in web projects/applications.

Latest Changes:

v1.4.0

Made picturebox a little bigger, and moved outside of bounds of main window for better ergonomics

Added image-preview checkbox to not have to alt-click on an image to trigger display

Added some extra checking for file path operations

Fixed some thread-safety issues

Added "Launch External" to context menu to launch a file with it's associated external program

Switched search method, 2x faster, especially on extra large folders (2000+ files)

Ordered files in list

Prevent from searching for a reference of oneself (foo.css inside foo.css)

Made form resizable

Added button to cancel a search in progress in case of long running instance

Added pseudo-dropdown to pattern textboxes Items are auto-added after a sucessful search Items can be deleted via a right-click on the textbox

Added update check in help menu

Added auto-update check to option panel

Added exclusion list to option panel Can be file names or folders (backslash) Anything matched will be ignored

Added a treeview pane to see in which files ressources are used in Has some context menus, but some things like multi-select do not work in treeviews, thus the Flat View pane that remains

Fixed Visual Studio from crashing when double-clicking a file This was happeneing when "track active item in solution explorer" was already checked in VS options

Switched .csproj back to VS2013 temporarily to fix some issues on 2013. Has no impact on 2015

Introduction

The other day at work I was cleaning up a project and got frustrated because i wanted to remove all images that are no longer referenced inside CSHTML, CSS, and LESS files ..but couldn't find any soft or plugin that would help me, so I got stuck with selecting each image name one by one and then searching through the entire project for each file to see if I got a match or not ..Grrrrr!



So I decided to whip up a little soft to help automate just that.

Works as a Standalone Application, from the Windows Explorer context menu, from the Command Line, or as a Visual Studio extension. Thank's to the command line it can easily be integrated with your favorite development IDE too.

Flat View

Tree View

File/Folder Exclusions

Thumbnail Preview

Parsing Dialog

Windows Explorer (context menu)

Visual Studio (context menu)

The process was really easy, so unless i missed something, i'm surprised i couldn't find some program on the web that already did just that.

Anyways here's how it works:

enter a regexp that matches files you want to match choose if you want to match if they are used or not used choose what filetypes you want to search within to see if they have references in there select your starting directory ......processing

The simple logic behind it:

load all file names from base directory & sub-directories extract all file names that match what we are looking for extract all file names that match which files we will be searching in iterate over each of the files we are searching in open each file and iterate over the content check if the content contains a match and add to a match list if so do a diff between matched and all

That's all, and it's pretty fast too. And since it uses standard regexp as input, you can match pretty much anything in any type of file.

Features:

Can be launched via the command line. Like this it's easy to integrate with Visual Studio, Eclipse, Zend Studio, NetBeans, IntelliJ IDEA, etc.

Double clicking a path in the visible list will open the directory the file is contained in

Once file processing is done you can toggle the visible list between used/unused lists

Select items in list and export the paths to a text file for later investigation

Regexp criteria is saved after successful search and restored on application launch

Selecting one or more paths in the visible list and clicking delete, will prompt you if you really want to delete the file(s)



Requires .NET 4 for the Application or .NET 4.5 / Visual Studio 2012 (and up) for the Plug-in

Change log

v1.4.0

Made picturebox a little bigger, and moved outside of bounds of main window for better ergonomics

Added image-preview checkbox to not have to alt-click on an image to trigger display

Added some extra checking for file path operations

Fixed some thread-safety issues

Added "Launch External" to context menu to launch a file with it's associated external program

Switched search method, 2x faster, especially on extra large folders (2000+ files)

Ordered files in list

Prevent from searching for a reference of oneself (foo.css inside foo.css)

Made form resizable

Added button to cancel a search in progress in case of long running instance

Added pseudo-dropdown to pattern textboxes Items are auto-added after a sucessful search Items can be deleted via a right-click on the textbox

Added update check in help menu

Added auto-update check to option panel

Added exclusion list to option panel Can be file names or folders (backslash) Anything matched will be ignored

Added a treeview pane to see in which files ressources are used in Has some context menus, but some things like multi-select do not work in treeviews, thus the Flat View pane that remains

Fixed Visual Studio from crashing when double-clicking a file This was happeneing when "track active item in solution explorer" was already checked in VS options

Switched .csproj back to VS2013 temporarily to fix some issues on 2013. Has no impact on 2015

v1.3.1

Added SVG, CSS, JS to default item list

Added scss to default files list

Made search culture-invariant / case-insensitive

(extension) Added Visual Studio: Enterprise & Community to supported platform list

(extension) Solution (.sln) will now only build with Visual Studio 2015 But plug-in will work with Visual Studio 2012 and up

Released Source-Code on Github

v1.3

Alt-Click in list will show image thumbnail if it's an image

Double-Click on list will open & set focus to item in solution explorer (VSIX only)

Shell integration (EXE only) Add/Remove from Help menu, or register/unregister from command line with -s t

More file stats

v1.2

Changed UI a bit

Context menus Select All Select Other Export Selection Delete Selection Explore Here Verify Selection (VSIX only: launches automated VS file search) In Project In Solution

Command line parameters (EXE only) -p path -r report type -f find regexp -i inside regexp

Help Menu Manual Change-log Website About License

More file stats

More error handling

v1.1

Disable delete button if no are files selected

Enabled searching in website projects (VSIX)

More error messages on invalid and/or unsuccessful operations

v1.0 (Visual Studio Plug-in)

.EXE and VSIX versions now share same code-base

Various modifications to accommodate different behavior in Visual Studio Mode & Standalone Mode

Enabled searching in application projects

v1.0 (Application)