S4059 — Property names should not match get methods

Why is this an issue?

Properties and Get method should have names that makes them clearly distinguishable.

This rule raises an issue when the name of a public or protected member starts with 'Get' and otherwise matches the name of a public or protected property.

Noncompliant code example

using System;

namespace MyLibrary
{
    public class Foo
    {
        public DateTime Date
        {
            get { return DateTime.Today; }
        }

        public string GetDate() // Noncompliant
        {
            return this.Date.ToString();
        }
    }
}

Compliant solution

using System;

namespace MyLibrary
{
    public class Foo
    {
        public DateTime Date
        {
            get { return DateTime.Today; }
        }

        public string GetDateAsString()
        {
            return this.Date.ToString();
        }
    }
}