Disabling rules

You can disable a rule before or after you run a code review.

If you disable the rule before you run the review, the rule will not be applied to the code base. Consequently, no findings for the rule are produced. If you disable the rule after you run the review, the finding gets marked with an X. Visually, this helps you distinguish between enabled findings that you want to evaluate and disabled ones that you do not want to examine at this time.
To disable a rule before or after running a code review:
  1. To disable a rule before running a code review, on the toolbar in the Code Review view click the Manage Rules icon, and perform the following tasks:
    • In the Select Code Review list, click the code review you want to run.
    • Expand the category that contains the rule you want to disable.
    • Clear the check box of any rule that you do not want applied when you run the selected code review.
    • Click OK to accept the rules you excluded from the code review.
  2. To disable a rule after running a code review, right-click the finding in the Code Review view and choose one of the following actions:
    • Click Disable rule on the pop-up menu to disable the rule in only the finding you selected. In the findings list, an X appears next to the selected finding.
    • Click Disable rule on filename to disable the rule in the entire file. In the findings list, an X appears next to each finding in that file that did not adhere to the rule.
To enable a disabled rule before you run a code review, click the disabled rule. To enable a disabled rule after you run a code review, right-click the finding and click Enable rule or Enable rule filename.
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