Prevent Google analytics from gathering data in development environment, ASP.NET MVC

Question

I have an ASP.NET MVC (3) app and I\'ve set Google analytics up. The problem is that every time I run from Visual Studio the Google script starts gathering data, which of course

Answer 1

The best-practice advised by Google is to use a filter to remove the data from your GA profiles. This can either be done by filtering based on the IP address of development machines or by setting a custom variable cookie in each browser being used for development and testing. This approach would mean you could remove the data without needing to modify your main body of code.