Question

Duplicate post, see: When do you use the "this" keyword?

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On almost every project I worked the "This" operator is used, when i start developing i was told that it is a good practice. is this really necessary does it gives you more readability?

Answer 1

Tools like Resharper have a built in hint saying ‘redundant qualifier,’ but I disagree with it and quickly disable the rule.

I always use the this qualifier because it lets me know at a glance whether or not the reference is a property/field, or a static class ref for example:

public class MyClass {     public int Foo { get; set; } }  public MyClass MyRef { get; } 

or

public static class MyRef {    public static int Foo { get; set; } } 

so:

void method() {    MyRef.Foo = 4; // might be either }  void method() {    this.MyRef.Foo = 4; // definitely property/field } 

Just my 2c.

-Oisin