Create a VS / R# rule to enforce usage of 'this' when calling non-static methods

Question

On my current project I have to call all non static methods with the this. prefix.

For example:

public void Test(){
    //wrong call
    DoIt();
    //Right call
    this.DoIt();
}
public void DoIt(){
    return "yeah";
}

Now R# says (and it is right) that when I type this., it is a redundant qualifier.

So I switched of that rule, but I want to go one step further: can I create a rule in R# (or VS2013) itself to give me a warning when I don't use this. in calling non-static methods?

Stylecop is a "good code formatting" checker which is used at Microsoft (but not owned by them as I understand). It IS a pain sometimes, but overall I like it when a few rules are disabled (spellchecking, hungarian notation detection) — Christian Sauer, Jul 24 '14 at 07:02

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 24 '14 at 11:13

You could use https://stylecop.codeplex.com/, which checks this and many other formatting issues. It can be somewhat anal sometimes, so it might be a good idea to disable certain rules like spellchecking (the dictionary is limited and adding words is costing a lot of time) and hungarian notation checking (I feel every second variable is hungarian for stylecop....)

Additionally, I would recommend to use special comments like autogenerated to turn off stylecop for code generated by tools (like entity framework code first migrations)

http://shishkin.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/stylecop-how-to-ignore-generated-code/

Create a VS / R# rule to enforce usage of 'this' when calling non-static methods

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