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Get rid of the ‘Missing XML comment for publicly visible type or member’ warning

For a long time, I had the (good?) habit to document all my public API’s. But keeping the documentation up-to-date has always been a long and boring task.

After a discussion with my fellow developers, I decided to stop adding documentation. Most developers said they don’t look at the documentation but just read the code or  have a look at my unit tests to understand what’s going on.

After removing all the documentation, I’m left with a long list of warnings inside my application complaining about ‘Missing XML comment for publicly visible type or member’ . 

How to remove these warnings?

There are 2 ways to remove these warnings:

  • Turn off the comment generation:
    • Go to the Project properties(Right click on your project and choose Properties from the context menu)
    • Go to the Build tab
    • Uncheck the XML documentation file checkbox

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    • Repeat this for every project in your solution
  • Disable the warning:
    • Go to the Project properties(Right click on your project and choose Properties from the context menu)
    • Go to the Build tab
    • Add 1591 to the Suppress warnings textbox

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    • Repeat this for every project in your solution
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