Why does StyleCop recommend prefixing method or property calls with "this"?

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I have been trying to follow StyleCop's guidelines on a project, to see if the resulting code was better in the end. Most rules are reasonable or a matter of opinion on coding standard, but there is one rule which puzzles me, because I haven't seen anyone else recommend it, and because I don't see a clear benefit to it:

SA1101: The call to {method or property name} must begin with the 'this.' prefix to indicate that the item is a member of the class.

On the downside, the code is clearly more verbose that way, so what are the benefits of following that rule? Does anyone here follow that rule?

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I follow it mainly for intellisense reasons. It is so nice typing this. and getting a consise list of properties, methods, etc.

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