Code inspection: Replace with 'field' keyword

This inspection reports a private backing field that is only used to implement a property and can be replaced with the contextual field keyword inside that property. This removes the separate field declaration while keeping the property's custom accessor logic.

Example

                private string _name = "";
                public string Name
                {
                    get => _name;
                    set => _name = value ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(value));
                }
            

                public string Name
                {
                    get;
                    set => field = value ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(value));
                } = "";
            

Quick-fix

The property keeps its behavior, but the code becomes smaller because the dedicated backing field is no longer needed.

30 March 2026