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On a current MVC project we’re also using the excellent T4MVC template by David Ebbo.  StyleCop however, thinks the generated code is well, less than perfect – it generates some 500 warnings at the moment.  The solution to this is a simple choice between two options: Fix the TT file to generate StyleCop compliant code, or exclude the generated T4MVC.cs class from StyleCop. The pragmatic choice here is of course to exclude the file.  But how? I first tried to add <ExcludeFromStyleCop>true</ExcludeFromStyleCop> to the Compile entry in the csproj file. Unfortunately that only works with builds from OUTSIDE Visual Studio. Sergey Shishkin has the answers: Encapsulating the code in a region that contains the string “generated code” does the trick, but even easier is to simply put a // <auto-generated /> comment at the top of the generated file – which of course means edit the TT file to stick it there. Would be nice to see this included in the next release….