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V3077. Property setter / event accessor…
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V3077. Property setter / event accessor does not utilize its 'value' parameter.

Mar 11 2016

The analyzer detected a possible error that deals with property and event accessors not using their 'value' parameter.

Consider the following example:

private bool _visible;
public bool IsVisible
{
  get { return _visible; }
  set { _visible = true; }
}

When setting a new value for the "IsVisible" property, the programmer intended to save the result into the "_visible" variable but made a mistake. As a result, changing the property won't affect the object state in any way.

This is the fixed version:

public bool IsVisible
{
  get { return _visible; }
  set { _visible = value; }
}

Code of the following pattern will also trigger the warning:

public bool Unsafe {
  get { return (flags & Flags.Unsafe) != 0; }
  set { flags |= Flags.Unsafe; }
}

In this case, the 'set' method is used to change the flag state and there's no error. However, using a property like that may be misleading, as the assignments "myobj.Unsafe = true" and "myobj.Unsafe = false" will have the same result.

To reset the state of the internal variable, it is better to use a function rather than a property:

public bool Unsafe
{
  get { return (flags & Flags.Unsafe) != 0; }
}

public void SetUnsafe()
{
  flags |= Flags.Unsafe;
}

If you can't do without the property, mark this line with special comment "//-V3077" to tell the analyzer not to output the warning on this property in future:

public bool Unsafe {
  get { return (flags & Flags.Unsafe) != 0; }
  set { flags |= Flags.Unsafe; } //-V3077
}

For a complete overview of all false-positive suppression mechanisms, see the documentation.

You can look at examples of errors detected by the V3077 diagnostic.