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Simplify member access (IDE0002)

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Property Value
Rule ID IDE0002
Title Simplify member access
Category Style
Subcategory Unnecessary code rules (expression-level preferences)
Applicable languages C# and Visual Basic

Overview

This rule concerns use of simplified type member access in declarations and executable code, when possible. Unnecessary qualification can be removed to simplify code and improve readability.

Note

Even if you enable code style rules on build, this rule is not enabled. It only surfaces in the Visual Studio editor.

Options

This rule has no associated code-style options.

Example

C# 
class C
{
    static void M1() { }

    static void M2()
    {
        // IDE0002: 'C.M1' can be simplified to 'M1'
        C.M1();

        // Fixed code
        M1();
    }
}

Suppress a warning

If you want to suppress only a single violation, add preprocessor directives to your source file to disable and then re-enable the rule.

C# 
#pragma warning disable IDE0002
// The code that's violating the rule is on this line.
#pragma warning restore IDE0002

To disable the rule for a file, folder, or project, set its severity to none in the configuration file.

ini 
[*.{cs,vb}]
dotnet_diagnostic.IDE0002.severity = none

To disable all of the code-style rules, set the severity for the category Style to none in the configuration file.

ini 
[*.{cs,vb}]
dotnet_analyzer_diagnostic.category-Style.severity = none

For more information, see How to suppress code analysis warnings.

See also