diff --git a/modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/java/io/swagger/codegen/languages/AspNet5ServerCodegen.java b/modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/java/io/swagger/codegen/languages/AspNet5ServerCodegen.java
index 099d049707b..4d244390ce6 100644
--- a/modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/java/io/swagger/codegen/languages/AspNet5ServerCodegen.java
+++ b/modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/java/io/swagger/codegen/languages/AspNet5ServerCodegen.java
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 
 public class AspNet5ServerCodegen extends AbstractCSharpCodegen {
 
-    protected String sourceFolder = "src" + File.separator + packageName;
 
     @SuppressWarnings("hiding")
     protected Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(AspNet5ServerCodegen.class);
@@ -19,6 +18,8 @@ public class AspNet5ServerCodegen extends AbstractCSharpCodegen {
     public AspNet5ServerCodegen() {
         super();
 
+        this.sourceFolder = "src" + File.separator + packageName;
+
         outputFolder = "generated-code" + File.separator + this.getName();
 
         modelTemplateFiles.put("model.mustache", ".cs");