How to suppress a StyleCop warning?

Question

I\'m using StyleCop and want to suppress some warning which does not suit my style. I prefer to have solution for

1) in-line code suppressing
2) global setting

Answer 1

1. In your case, correct SuppressMessage attribute should like like the following:

[SuppressMessage("StyleCop.CSharp.OrderingRules", "SA1202:ElementsMustBeOrderedByAccess")]
private void SomeMethod()
{
}

Note that you can place it on any other element (e.g, on the class - then all similar violations in the entire class will be supressed).

I also agree that it's quite unobvious what to write in these fields.

Actually, the first one should be the fully qualified name of StyleCop analyser class and could be found from the source code (e.g. from here). The second one should start with rule code, then colon and the name of the rule enumeration (luckily, it always looks like the rule name displayed in the Settings Editor, but with no whitespaces).

2. Regarding suppressing rules "globally" - why don't just turn them off via Settings Editor? Settings files are inherited through the file system, so you could easily have one "main" settings file at the "top" of your folder structure, and some other files (holding the "difference" from main) with exceptions made for some projects, if you want so (like described here).

Good luck!