ReSharper with StyleCop Configuration

Question

My understanding is that running StyleCop as a ReSharper extension uses the Analyzer technology built into VS 2015 and, in this way, it differs from downloading and installing StyleCop as a standalone program. When I previously installed StyleCop as a standalone program, I had access to a StyleCop .Settings file that let me use the StyleCop dialog box for selecting certain options. Among those options was a Company Information tab, into which you can place Company Name and a Copyright notice: StyleCop Settings Documentation for the Company Information Tab

When ReSharper shows a StyleCop rule that needs attention and it has to do with adding a XML summary comment to the top of my class, ReSharper places the comment text for me. However, there is a space for Company Name and that value is always blank. This means that I must modify it manually, and that's tedious.

Question:

How do I tell ReSharper to populate the Company Name field with a certain value? Can I do that on a solution basis or does that Company Name field get defined globally?

Thank you.

Answer 1

If you're using StyleCop for ReSharper, it's actually using the same StyleCop parser that the command line uses, and not the VS2015 analyzers (unless you're actually using StyleCopAnalyzers). However, inserting comments and rewriting code is all ReSharper code. The plugin will still use your existing stylecop.settings files, and the company name comes from there. You can edit the file with the settings editor from the normal install of StyleCop.