diff --git a/src/NetAnalyzers/CSharp/Microsoft.NetCore.Analyzers/Performance/CSharpUseSearchValues.cs b/src/NetAnalyzers/CSharp/Microsoft.NetCore.Analyzers/Performance/CSharpUseSearchValues.cs
index 5a39ce4b80..d5a044a67f 100644
--- a/src/NetAnalyzers/CSharp/Microsoft.NetCore.Analyzers/Performance/CSharpUseSearchValues.cs
+++ b/src/NetAnalyzers/CSharp/Microsoft.NetCore.Analyzers/Performance/CSharpUseSearchValues.cs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 // Copyright (c) Microsoft.  All Rights Reserved.  Licensed under the MIT license.  See License.txt in the project root for license information.
 
 using System.Collections.Generic;
+using Analyzer.Utilities.Lightup;
 using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis;
 using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp;
 using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.Syntax;
@@ -112,7 +113,7 @@ internal static bool IsConstantByteOrCharArrayCreationExpression(SemanticModel s
                     return true;
                 }
             }
-            else
+            else if (expression.IsKind(SyntaxKindEx.CollectionExpression))
             {
                 return
                     semanticModel.GetOperation(expression) is { } operation &&
@@ -165,12 +166,9 @@ static bool TryGetByteOrCharLiteral(ExpressionSyntax? expression, out char value
 
         private static bool IsUtf8StringLiteralExpression(ExpressionSyntax expression, out int length)
         {
-            const SyntaxKind Utf8StringLiteralExpression = (SyntaxKind)8756;
-            const SyntaxKind Utf8StringLiteralToken = (SyntaxKind)8520;
-
-            if (expression.IsKind(Utf8StringLiteralExpression) &&
+            if (expression.IsKind(SyntaxKindEx.Utf8StringLiteralExpression) &&
                 expression is LiteralExpressionSyntax literal &&
-                literal.Token.IsKind(Utf8StringLiteralToken) &&
+                literal.Token.IsKind(SyntaxKindEx.Utf8StringLiteralToken) &&
                 literal.Token.Value is string value)
             {
                 length = value.Length;
diff --git a/src/Utilities/Compiler.CSharp/Analyzer.CSharp.Utilities.projitems b/src/Utilities/Compiler.CSharp/Analyzer.CSharp.Utilities.projitems
index efd3b3e0e5..a60042f946 100644
--- a/src/Utilities/Compiler.CSharp/Analyzer.CSharp.Utilities.projitems
+++ b/src/Utilities/Compiler.CSharp/Analyzer.CSharp.Utilities.projitems
@@ -10,5 +10,6 @@
   </PropertyGroup>
   <ItemGroup>
     <Compile Include="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)Extensions\SyntaxNodeExtensions.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)Lightup\SyntaxKindEx.cs" />
   </ItemGroup>
 </Project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/Utilities/Compiler.CSharp/Lightup/SyntaxKindEx.cs b/src/Utilities/Compiler.CSharp/Lightup/SyntaxKindEx.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fbe93dcdcc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Utilities/Compiler.CSharp/Lightup/SyntaxKindEx.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+// Copyright (c) Microsoft.  All Rights Reserved.  Licensed under the MIT license.  See License.txt in the project root for license information.
+
+using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp;
+
+namespace Analyzer.Utilities.Lightup
+{
+    internal static class SyntaxKindEx
+    {
+        // https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/blob/main/src/Compilers/CSharp/Portable/Syntax/SyntaxKind.cs
+        public const SyntaxKind Utf8StringLiteralToken = (SyntaxKind)8520;
+        public const SyntaxKind Utf8StringLiteralExpression = (SyntaxKind)8756;
+        public const SyntaxKind CollectionExpression = (SyntaxKind)9076;
+    }
+}