While working with swagger documentation in an API we have to enabled the XML file to be generated for documentation from project setting and due to this reason all the pubic members in the project solution start giving the warnings "CS1591 Missing XML comment for publicly visible type or member" and if we specify the XML comment for those members then the same warning will be get disappeared but what for those members which are not a part of swagger documentation, If we ignore then their will be lots of warnings in the code which looks very uglier in the code, So in this article we will discus how to resolve the "CS1591 missing XML comment for publicly visible type or member" warning
CS1591 Missing XML Comment Solution
- Define XML Comment for All Public Members
As per me the best way is to define the XML comment for all public members whether its part of swagger UI document or not because of comments our method become more meaningful which help new developer to know about the method by comments instead of going through the code & understand the logic
- Suppress Warning by Decorating each Public Member
Even though first approach has lots of advantages but you don't want to invest lots of time & increase the size of the project we can suppress the each public member by decorating with following line
#pragma warning disable CS1591
If you don't know the syntax then simply follow the visual studio suggestion by keeping the mouse on specific method or member
- Suppress all Warnings at Project Level
The previous two approaches requires lots of time either defining the XML comment or disabling the warning of each member in project.
To save the time & minimize the swagger comment related warnings we can disable these warning at project level itself with the just one line configuration, to achieve follows the following steps
Right click on api project solution & find the properties
or just use Alt + Enter by putting control of project solution which opens the following window, find the options by following the below image & enter the 1591 in the suppress warnings text box & save it.
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Now check any class file, you will not be see any warnings related to the swagger XML comment
Summary
Hope this article helped you to fix Warning CS1591 Missing XML comment for publicly visible type or member. If you like the contents the support by using the following way.
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