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Code inspection: Non-accessed field (non-private accessibility)

This inspection reports public fields that are assigned a value, but are never used in any operation or returned by any method. This often indicates that some part of your code is not functioning as intended, or that the field is redundant and should be removed to improve the readability.

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 Ctrl+Alt+S.

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

Note that even if the reported field 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 field in one of the following ways:

Last modified: 05 June 2024