Setting up StyleCop for team development

Question

We are trying to setup stylecop for a team development environment. So far what we have done is:

• Checked the files into source control
• Create an environment variable on every machine that points to that location (each dev has source checked out to a different location, this solves that)
• Add the tag to the project as follows:

This works great, but VS complains that the file is unsafe, and I know to fix that we have to mark is safe in the registry. We wanted to create a .reg file to import this setting and make it easier for everyone. Can we use that environment variable in the path? I have tried the snippet below, but that doesn't seem to work. Is the syntax for an environment variable different?

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\MSBuild\SafeImports]
"StyleCop.4.3"="%StyleCopLocation%\\Microsoft.StyleCop.Targets"

Answer 1

Why you need to host that Targets file in a global place? Everyone can install a copy of StyleCop.

If you in fact plan to share StyleCop settings, please configure the projects to use a project locally setting file (*.SourceAnalysis). You can check in this file along with your projects, and then everyone is in sync.