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Handling the this Keyword and Opening Braces with ReSharper and StyleCop

I hope that someone can help me here. I have hunted on and off over the past few weeks. It is a two part question of things that are annoying me!

I do not like the this keyword stuck in front of everything. Before I installed Stylecop I recall that ReSharper offered to remove these as redundant. With StyleCop this no longer happens. Worse when I reformat or otherwise fiddle with the code the this keyword seems to appear automagically where I did not ask for it. I have tried turning off StyleCop's inspection for this and turning on ReSharpers. RS does not offer to remove it. I have concluded that it must be something to do with code formatting but I cannot find anything.

A smaller annoyance is that I prefer my opening brace on the same line as the statement it refers to. Again it keeps getting shunted down. I wonder if this is in the same area and I am just not seeing the wood for the trees.

Solution

  • You can get resharper to ignore the this keyword by changing Resharper->Options->Languages->C#->Formatting Style->Other->Force "this." qualifier for instance member to 'Do not use'. Installing Stylecop always resets this setting to 'Use always'.

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    With regard to the braces, you can change them under Resharper->Options->Languages->C#->Formatting Style->Braces Layout and use the 'At and of line (K&R style)'.