Widen Scope (promote to field)

• Apr 17, 2018

Converts a local variable to a field variable, activates Linked Identifiers for the field references, and drops a marker onto the initial code line.

Availability

Available from the context menu or via shortcuts:

• when the caret is on a variable declared within a class member (for instance, within a method). The selected variable is moved outside of the parent member, so that it becomes available to all class members.

Example

C#

private string TestMethod(string param1)
{
    string │MyString = "My string";
    return MyString + param1;
}

VB.NET

Private Function TestMethod(ByVal param1 As String) As String
    Dim │MyString As String = "My string"
    Return MyString + param1
End Function

Result:

C#

private string │_MyString;
private string TestMethod(string param1)
{
    _MyString = "My string";
    return _MyString + param1;
}

VB.NET

Private │_myString As String
Private Function TestMethod(ByVal param1 As String) As String
    _myString = "My string"
    Return _myString + param1
End Function

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