How to make Sonarqube exclude a .NET (C#) project from coverage measures

Question

Sonarqube allows for individual files to be excluded from code coverage by adding patterns in the sonar.coverage.exclusions key. This can be done on a project level by adding them in the UI and even in a .csproj file by specifying a SonarQubeSetting element. I.e.

<SonarQubeSetting Include="sonar.coverage.exclusions"> <Value>**/*.cs</Value> </SonarQubeSetting>

However, both of these approaches don't seem to work. Playing with the patterns, as specified in the SonarQube documentation doesn't provide the desired result. I'm also aware of the existence of the SonarQubeExclude MSBuild property, but I don't want to go down that path as it would exclude my project from all other analysis.

Is there another possibility that I'm missing? Or is it simply not possible to exclude all of the classes within a project from code coverage?

Answer 1

Summing up the above mentioned answers and also adding one point to it.

1. To exclude a project from SonarQube Analysis from csproj we can achieve by adding the below code in .csproj of that project

   <PropertyGroup>
   <!-- Exclude the project from analysis -->
   <SonarQubeExclude>true</SonarQubeExclude>
   </PropertyGroup>
   

2. To exclude a file from a project

    <ItemGroup>
    <SonarQubeSetting Include="sonar.coverage.exclusions">
    <Value>**/FileName.cs</Value>
    </SonarQubeSetting>
    </ItemGroup>
   

3. And for multiple files

   <ItemGroup>
   <SonarQubeSetting Include="sonar.coverage.exclusions">
   <Value>**/FileName1.cs, **/FileName2.cs</Value>
   </SonarQubeSetting>
   </ItemGroup>
   

Also can refer this for regex patterns used