reflection issues, General feedback

"Charbel Gereige" <no_reply@jetbrains.com> wrote in message
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Resharper doesn't seem to be able to recognize reflections in C#, I agree
it isn't easy, and extended to the extreme it can be impossible. This
said, I accidentally allowed Resharper to remove a method, wrongly
identified as unused, burried deep inside the code, and created a very
nasty bug. Obviously a combination of many bad practices culminated in
hiding the cause of this.

How could R# possibly know that yuo were referencing the method through
reflection? Was this a private method? If so, why should it even imagine
that you would want to use reflection to reference private methods?

John

unfortunately, I haven't written the original code, I inherited it and need to maintain it. I was cleaning up using R# and introduced the bug. The code relies on Databinding and reflection a lot, and not used warning are sometime misleading.

Is there comment directive or something like that I could use to tell R# that this particular string references through reflexion something else, say:

///R#obj]]>

or something similar

You could just mark your private method with some attribute.
In this case it won't be counted as redundant

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Eugene Pasynkov
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"Charbel Gereige" <no_reply@jetbrains.com> wrote in message
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unfortunately, I haven't written the original code, I inherited it and
need to maintain it. I was cleaning up using R# and introduced the bug.
The code relies on Databinding and reflection a lot, and not used warning
are sometime misleading.

>

Is there comment directive or something like that I could use to tell R#
that this particular string references through reflexion something else,
say:

>

///R#<relflection source="property1" destination=
Property2>obj</reflection>

>

or something similar

"Eugene Pasynkov (JetBrains)" <Eugene.Pasynkov@jetbrains.com> wrote in
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You could just mark your private method with some attribute.
In this case it won't be counted as redundant

If your method is being accessed through reflection from outside of the
class which contains it, then I recommend marking it with the "public"
attribute, since it's misleading to call it private.

I would also continue refactoring the code into something more sensible.
Most databinding techniques I'm familiar with don't involve using reflection
to access private members.

Private members are meant to be private; if they are accessed outside of the
class, whether by reflection, or by black magic, then they're not private
any more!

Note that if the method had been public, then R# wouldn't have told you it
was unused.

John