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RoslynAnalyzers Do not declare event fields as virtual

Do not declare virtual events in a base class. Overridden events in a derived class have undefined behavior. The C# compiler does not handle this correctly and it is unpredictable whether a subscriber to the derived event will actually be subscribing to the base class event.

Locating this inspection

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Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

CA1070
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Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | C# | Roslyn Analyzers

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection CA1070

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Inspection Details

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JetBrains Rider 2025.2, Qodana for .NET 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025