Why does StyleCop recommend prefixing method or property calls with “this”?

Question

I have been trying to follow StyleCop\'s guidelines on a project, to see if the resulting code was better in the end. Most rules are reasonable or a matter of opinion on cod

Answer 1

I don't really follow this guidance unless I'm in the scenarios you need it:

• there is an actual ambiguity - mainly this impacts either constructors (this.name = name;) or things like Equals (return this.id == other.id;)
• you want to pass a reference to the current instance
• you want to call an extension method on the current instance

Other than that I consider this clutter. So I turn the rule off.