There are several reasons for a method not to have a method body:

• It is an unintentional omission, and should be fixed.
• It is not yet, or never will be, supported. In this case a NotSupportedException should be thrown.
• The method is an intentionally-blank override. In this case a nested comment should explain the reason for the blank override.

Noncompliant Code Example

public override void DoSomething()
{
}

public override void DoSomethingElse()
{
}

Compliant Solution

public override void DoSomething()
{
  // Do nothing because of X and Y.
}

public override void DoSomethingElse()
{
  throw new NotSupportedException();
}

Exceptions

The following methods are ignored:

• empty virtual methods,
• empty methods that override an abstract method,
• empty overrides in test assemblies.