unit testing - How to ignore generated code from code coverage data

Question

I am using Visual Studio 2010 and would like to exclude the generated service reference code from my code coverage statistics.

I found an article pre 2010 that mentions using DebuggerNonUserCode and DebuggerHidden attributes. I have tried this an it works as advertised. DebuggerNonUserCode is set at the class level, but with 50+ classes generated in each of the generated service reference code files, this is not an attractive option.

Does anyone have any alternative solutions?

Answer 1

The generated classes are partial. If you create a new class in your project with the same namespace and class declaration you can add the [ExcludeFromCodeCoverage] attribute to your partial class. That way you don't have to go back and edit the Reference.cs file whenever you refresh your reference.