
So I have decided to go with an macro approach.Ģ. And another thing, if you want to do it for already created files, template approach won’t help you. While we are using template, we need to modify the same thing for Class,Interface as well as Code file. How to modify the default new class template for C# in Visual Studio 2008 or 2010? Problem with the template Approach : Visual Studio Templates – Add New Item to project Below, I am referring two good article from where you can see how you can customize the Visual Studio default templates, using which you can add document header automatically. Which will be generate all of your class as per the template once you update the new template with Visual Studio. below is the default template for visual studio classes. We can rewrite the Visual Studio code templates to customize the templates as per requirements. Well, we have two different approaches to automate this stuff. Two Different approaches to automatically add document header Once again, I am discussing all these approaches as I am not using any tool make it automate.


And for each file, drag and drop the content from tool box and change the file name.īut do you think it was really a bad approach ? 🙂 Only problem was every time I need to update file name manually. I used to follow a dumb approach to save my bit of time. Warning Message : “The file has no header,the header xml is invalid or the header is not located at the top of the file.” Problem : Style Cop warning due to file header missing or mismatch for any “.cs” file. Here I am going to share with you two different approaches to deal with this issue. But I always prefer let’s Visual studio do the job for me. There are many tools available which can helps us in this case to do this automatically. Actually extensive using of StyleCop helped me to think to make it automate. This is going to be an very interesting and helpful for all of you who are using styleCop to maintain coding standard. In this blog post I am going to share how you can add a document header of xml comments with code file automatically.
