I see it’s already been rised and fixed according to that link S4261 // Methods should be named according to their synchronicities should not apply to controllers But I still see such issue reported for Controllers. I’m using SonarCloud and our projects uses .NET 4.8 and .NET 8.

Hi, That’s a very old thread. A lot has changed since then and it’s likely you’re facing a different false positive than that thread was about. Can you provide a reproducer, i.e. a self-contained code snippet that demonstrates the false-positive? Thx, Ann

Hi, Screenshots are hard. :sweat_smile: Would you mind copy/pasting the text so we can copy/paste it locally to reproduce? Thx, Ann

Sorry :sweat_smile: Here is a code using System.Threading.Tasks; using System.Web.Http; using System.Web.Http.Results; namespace Example { public class MicroServicesHealthCheckController : ApiController { public MicroServicesHealthCheckController() { } [Ht…

Hi, Thanks for that. I’m going to flag this for the language experts. Ann

Hello @bartlomiejmucha , I was not able to reproduce the error locally. For me, the issue is not raising as expected for actions in controllers. Could you provide me with a small reproducer in a form of a csproj project? Thank you,

Methods should be named according to their synchronicities

Rules and Languages Report False-positive / False-negative...

bartlomiejmucha (Bartłomiej) June 18, 2025, 1:42pm 4

Hi, thanks for reply.
Here is an example from our codebase

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S4261 // Methods should be named according to their synchronicities should not apply to controllers Report False-positive / False-negative... csharp	1	1059	September 24, 2018
S4261 False Positive when methodname ends with the character a Report False-positive / False-negative...	4	420	January 31, 2024
csharpsquid:S6965 false positive - "REST API actions should be annotated with an HTTP verb attribute Report False-positive / False-negative... csharp	1	26	April 15, 2026
Avoid Exposed Controller Actions New rules / language support dotnet	2	58	February 13, 2025
New rule: c# HTTP verb in Controllers other than REST API New rules / language support	1	74	January 28, 2025

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