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Code inspection: Auto-property accessor is never used (non-private accessibility)

Last modified: 28 May 2024

This inspection reports public auto-properties that have nominal usages, but may not do anything meaningful because one of their accessors is never used.

Here is an example that illustrates the issue in a simple case:

For the solution-wide inspection to work, you need to enable at least one of the following:

  • Simplified global usage checking: select Show unused non-private type members when solution-wide analysis is off on the Editor | Inspection Settings page of JetBrains Rider settings CtrlAlt0S.

  • Solution-wide analysis: select Enable solution-wide analysis on the Editor | Inspection Settings page of JetBrains Rider settings CtrlAlt0S.

Note that even if the reported accessor has no direct usages in your solution, there could be cases where it is used indirectly — for example, via reflection — or it could just be designed as public API. In all those cases, you would want to suppress the usage-checking inspection for the accessor in one of the following ways: