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I have some classes that are extensions of the built-in class IPAddress and therefore start with the letter I.  Is there a way to easily turn off this rule for the "Interfaces start with I" portion without disabling all the other checks that this rule is simultaneously performing?  Yes, I can decorate all the classes with an attribute to bypass this check, but it seems like an odd restriction to not let any class names start with an I.

Thanks!

Hello,

Yes, the rule is following MS guidelines and in some real life cases it may conflict with your naming preferences.

There are a couple of ways to work around this:

• you can just Exclude the Violation
• in Profile Editor for the rule "Only Interface types should have "I" prefix" and add the list of names to the ExcludeList property
  
  

Adding attribute to a code element will have side effects for this particular rule. The rule is an instance of the UseOrAvoidCertainPrefixes which in turn has 5 or more instances. Adding the attribute will potentially suppress all 5 instances of the rule.

Please let me know if this helps.

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Thank you,
Serge Baranovsky
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