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When I integrated SonarLint into my VS solution, I got a SonarLint.xml file ref. for every project. I wonder, how it is used? Can I remove this reference? Couldn't find any documentation about it.

Siarhei Machel
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When I integrated SonarLint into my VS solution, I got a SonarLint.xml file ref. for every project.

This is needed and by-design. The file contains code quality rule parameters used by SonarLint. Example parameter:

<Rule>
  <Key>S103</Key>
  <Parameters>
    <Parameter>
      <Key>maximumLineLength</Key>
      <Value>200</Value>

When you bind or update your solution from SonarQube, a master SonarLint.xml file gets downloaded into your solution's .sonarlint folder; and a soft-link file to this master file is added to every project being analyzed.

(The SonarLint NuGet apparently does not or cannot access the master SonarLint.xml file, so it needs a project-level SonarLint.xml soft-link file.)

Dave Clausen
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