Please up-vote to fix data portal methods being faded out - IDE0051

[michaelcsikos]

In a recent Visual Studio update, our beloved data portal methods are being faded out because of IDE0051 Private member '[method name]' is unused. Microsoft has not provided an option to disable this "feature".

Would you mind taking a moment to up-vote this issue on the Developer Community so we get this prioritised:

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/unused-private-member-IDE0051-fading-e/10781612

[mtavares628]

It looks like they closed that issue as a duplicate. The related issue is here:

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Private-Unity-messages-incorrectly-marke/10779025

[michaelcsikos]

Yes, extremely frustrating, as it's clearly not the same issue. They should reopen it.

[Carpenter360]

Hi @michaelcsikos,

I'm assuming you know about the SuppressMessage attribute but just in case.

[Insert]
[SuppressMessage("Style", "IDE0051:Remove unused private members", Justification = "Used by CSLA data portal")]
private void Insert([Inject] IReceiptReaderRequestEditDal dal, [Inject] IMapper mapper)

Cheers,

Sylvain

[michaelcsikos]

Hi @Carpenter360, thanks, yes, I know we can switch it off per method or, even better, per assembly with a global suppression [assembly: SuppressMessage(...)]. This can be set up in a cs file and linked to each business project, but we have dozens of them, and I don't mind the warning itself — it's the fading that is annoying and there's currently no way to stop it without suppressing the warning entirely.

[ajohnstone-ks]

[Insert] [SuppressMessage("Style", "IDE0051:Remove unused private members", Justification = "Used by CSLA data portal")] private void Insert([Inject] IReceiptReaderRequestEditDal dal, [Inject] IMapper mapper)

This is what we do, and it doesn't dim the code. But we also have R#, so maybe that is fixing the issue?

[michaelcsikos]

@ajohnstone-ks, [SuppressMessage] works for C#, too, but you have to apply the attribute to each method, or globally. I would prefer a Visual Studio option to simply disable the dimming.

[rockfordlhotka]

This is one part of a bigger problem, which includes how VS grays out text, but also how AOT works. I have some thoughts on a solution.

#4359

[Chicagoan2016]

Chris Wang (MSFT) recommended to add this to editorconfig file
[*.{cs,vb}]
dotnet_diagnostic.IDE0051.severity = none

I tried and it works but did I break something else? :)

[michaelcsikos]

@Chicagoan2016, I think the easiest fix for now is to set up a GlobalSuppressions folder with the following:

// This file is used by Code Analysis to maintain SuppressMessage
// attributes that are applied to this project.
// Project-level suppressions either have no target or are given
// a specific target and scoped to a namespace, type, member, etc.

using System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis;

[assembly: SuppressMessage("Style", "IDE0051:Remove unused private members")]

SuppressIDE0051.cs file in this zip:
SuppressIDE0051.zip