--- title: UnsafeAccessor is awesome in .NET | daily.dev description: UnsafeAccessor in .NET provides a faster alternative to reflection for accessing private members during testing. While it offers compile-time safety and direct... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/lwkrxgjqx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: UnsafeAccessor is awesome in .NET | daily.dev og:description: UnsafeAccessor in .NET provides a faster alternative to reflection for accessing private members during testing. While it offers compile-time safety and direct... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/lwkrxgjqx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/lwkrXgJQx.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # UnsafeAccessor is awesome in .NET **[Advanced .NET](https://daily.dev/sources/advanceddotnet)** · [@barion](https://daily.dev/barion) · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary UnsafeAccessor in .NET provides a faster alternative to reflection for accessing private members during testing. While it offers compile-time safety and direct field access without reflection overhead, it's generally discouraged for production code. The feature is useful as a last resort when reflection would be too slow, but developers should avoid accessing private members when possible. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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