Visual Studio: temporarily disable StyleCop

Question

Can you disable styleCop in VS?

Scenario:

1. Press "Disable StyleCop" button
2. Run/debug some test code
3. The button automatically, enable StyleCop again. Therefore you have to actively disable it again it you want to run without StyleCop.

Answer 1

You can disbale StyleCop for the entire solution by placing a Settings.StyleCop in the root of your solution folder, with the following contents:

<StyleCopSettings Version="105">
  <GlobalSettings>
    <BooleanProperty Name="RulesEnabledByDefault">False</BooleanProperty>
  </GlobalSettings>
</StyleCopSettings>

You'll need to restart Visual Studio after doing so.

Answer 2

I've setup a separate build configuration that doesn't run code analysis.

I now have the following configurations in VS:

• Release
• Debug
• Debug (No code analysis)

You have to manually choose which configuration you want to build (i.e. step 3 in your list would be a manual step)

In the build targets file I've included code along these lines:

<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == 'Release' ">
    <RunCodeAnalysis>true</RunCodeAnalysis>
</PropertyGroup>

<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == 'Debug' ">
    <RunCodeAnalysis>true</RunCodeAnalysis>
</PropertyGroup>

<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == 'Debug (No code analysis)' ">
    <RunCodeAnalysis>false</RunCodeAnalysis>
</PropertyGroup>

<PropertyGroup>
    <DefineConstants Condition="('$(RunCodeAnalysis)'=='true') and '$(Language)'=='C#' ">CODE_ANALYSIS;$(DefineConstants)</DefineConstants>
</PropertyGroup>