ReSharper - Include external source files in code inspection

Question

Background:

We're using a 3rd party tool in our .NET C# solution. This tool has it's own syntax and integrates with Visual Studio. When we use this tool we write its markup within Visual Studio and then when we build the solution the custom tool runs and generates a .cs file based on the markup we have written.

This generated source file contains a version number which is causing problems when we check these in to version control (Endless conflicts). Our understanding is that it's considered best practice not to check in generated source files.

So we excluded the generated .cs files from SVN and then the next issue we ran in to was that the Visual Studio solution referenced these files, so when TeamCity (Our continuous build/integration software) went to build the solution it would fail straight away as it couldn't find these files.

We then removed these from the solution as well as excluding them from SVN, this fixed the original issue, we're no longer checking in generated code and it builds fine in TeamCity (As the files are re-generated with every build).

We now have a new problem - As the generated files are no longer included in the solution, intellisense and code inspection fails as the generated classes cannot be found. The solution builds just fine (As again the code is re-generated during the build).

Question

Is there a way to tell ReSharper to include generated .cs files in its code inspection? These files are external to the solution but they are in the obj directory.

Cheers,

Tyler

Answer 1

We had a similar problem and couldn't come up with a good solution so I wrote a ReSharper extension to include external code:

https://resharper-plugins.jetbrains.com/packages/ReSharper.ExternalCode