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Unity support ships with several inspections designed to help you find issues with your code before you run it. The following pages provide more details about why Rider or ReSharper is showing a particular inspection.
Note that these pages can be navigated to from the Alt+Enter menu, under the "Inspection: …" sub menu, there will be a menu item "Why is Rider suggesting this?" or "Why is ReSharper suggesting this?". Selecting this item will navigate to the appropriate page in the list below.
| Inspection | Default severity | First introduced |
|---|---|---|
| Attribute is redundant when applied to this declaration type | Dead code | |
| MonoBehaviors must be instantiated with GameObject.AddComponent instead of new | Warning | |
| Possible mis-application of 'FormerlySerializedAs' attribute to multiple fields | Warning | 2018.2 |
| Possible unintended bypass of lifetime check of underlying Unity engine object | Warning | |
| Redundant 'FormerlySerializedAs' attribute | Dead code | 2018.2 |
| Redundant 'InitializeOnLoad' attribute | Dead code | |
| Redundant 'SerializeField' attribute | Dead code | |
| Redundant Unity event function | Dead code | |
| ScriptableObjects must be instantiated with ScriptableObject.CreateInstance instead of new | Warning | |
| Use CompareTag instead of explicit string comparison | Warning |