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Yup. This is the only approach which is practical and probably followed by all.

Wanted to see if there is some innovative method out there which can be utilised.

I do know that you can create StyleCop rules to try to check for redundancy. For example, we had a type derived from System.DateTime in .NET that was to be used (instead of System.DateTime) and the smoketest builds would fail for the StyleCop violation.

So, using your version example, you could create a rule that checks if the method .ctor() has the word version in it and if it leverages any of the same single lines of code; however, I haven't the faintest idea of if I'm right in that it was StyleCop or how you would go about implementing it but I believe what you're looking for can be done.

Most companies don't go that route, though, unless there's security implications because the ROI is so high for the implementation.

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