Protected member in sealed type will be private

• Apr 29, 2019

CodeRush Classic shows the Protected member in sealed type will be private code issue if a protected member is declared within a sealed class.

Fix

Make the member private.

Purpose

Highlights the sealed class member declarations, which would cause the ‘Member name’: new protected member declared in a sealed class compilation warning.

Example

C#

public sealed class MyClass
{
    private string _Text;
    public string Text
    {
        get { return _Text; }
        set 
        { 
            _Text = value; 
            ProcessText(_Text);
        }
    }
    protected void │ProcessText(string text)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(text);
    }
}

Fix:

C#

public sealed class MyClass
{
    private string _Text;
    public string Text
    {
        get { return _Text; }
        set 
        { 
            _Text = value; 
            ProcessText(_Text);
        }
    }
    private void ProcessText(string text)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(text);
    }
}