Static Methods are a Code Smell

Resharper signals those methods in a class that can be made static. It’s rarely a good idea to follow blindly its advice. In an object oriented system work gets done by objects collaborating with one another. Behavior happens at the instance level. What happens at the class level should be the exception rather the norm.

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