Share ReSharper and StyleCop Configuration via NuGet

Would you to share your coding style standards between projects?

Tools such as ReSharper and StyleCop both allow you to share your settings files between projects by placing a configuration file in the solution directory. However just sharing those settings across projects in a single solution might not be enough to truly enforce your coding standards for a whole team.

You can share your configuration settings across multiple solutions via a NuGet package. These configuration files can not just be standard content files in your NuGet package, they need to be installed via the init PowerShell script inside of the package.

Init.ps1

param($installPath, $toolsPath, $package)

Write-Host "==================================="

Write-Host "Initing: CSharpConventions"

# Get the active solution

$solution = Get-Interface $dte.Solution ([EnvDTE80.Solution2])

$solutionDir = Get-Item $solution.FullName

# Copy StyleCopy file

$copFileName = "Settings.StyleCop"

$newCopPath = join-path $solutionDir.Directory $copFileName

$oldCopPath = join-path $toolsPath $copFileName

Write-Host "Copying " $oldCopPath " to " $newCopPath

Copy-Item $oldCopPath $newCopPath 

# Copy and rename DotSettings file

$newDotPath = $solution.FullName + ".DotSettings"

$oldDotPath = join-path $toolsPath "Solution.sln.DotSettings"

Write-Host "Copying " $oldDotPath " to " $newDotPath

Copy-Item $oldDotPath $newDotPath 

Write-Host "Completed: CSharpConventions"

Write-Host "====================================="

NuSpec File

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<package xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/packaging/2010/07/nuspec.xsd">

    <metadata>

        <id>CSharpConventions</id>

        <version>1.0.0</version>

        <authors>tdupont</authors>

        <requireLicenseAcceptance>false</requireLicenseAcceptance>

        <description>

            StyleCop and R# settings file to enforce C# coding standards.

        </description>

    </metadata>

    <files>

        <file src="tools\init.ps1" target="tools\init.ps1" />

        <file src="tools\Settings.StyleCop" 

            target="tools\Settings.StyleCop" />

        <file src="tools\Solution.sln.DotSettings" 

            target="tools\Solution.sln.DotSettings" />

    </files>

</package>

Enjoy,
Tom