Code Inspection: Member can be made private (non-private accessibility)
This is a solution-wide code inspection. It only works when the solution-wide analysis is enabled.
ReSharper is smart enough to determine where a particular class member is actually being used. If it isn’t used outside the type or derived types, ReSharper will offer to mark the member as private
. If the member is used in derived classes too, ReSharper will offer to mark it as protected
.
Please note that these recommendations need to be considered before being automatically applied. After all, you may be creating a public API, or you may be making types intended to be accessed in non-standard ways (e.g., reflection). In this case, constraining visibility might not be a good idea. If necessary, you can always suppress the inspection.
The best way to suppress ReSharper inspections for an implicitly used public symbol is to mark this symbol with either [UsedImplicitly] or [PublicApi] attribute from the JetBrains.Annotations namespace.
You can also suppress these inspections with any custom attribute. To do so, mark the definition of this attribute with [MeansImplicitUse] attribute.