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Manage and share dotCover settings

Last modified: 26 May 2024

dotCover saves your preferences using the mechanism of layered settings, which provides the following benefits:

  • You can have different settings in different solutions.

  • You can keep different subsets of the preferences in different places and combine them when you work on a specific solution.

  • You can synchronize preferences within your team by keeping a specific subset of settings under a VCS. dotCover provides a default option of keeping team preferences in a separate file, which is saved in the solution folder and can be easily added to your VCS. If other team members use dotCover , settings from this file will be applied automatically as soon as they pull the changes from the VCS — no Visual Studio restart or solution reload is needed.

  • As any subset of settings can be saved in a file and updated dynamically, you can share your dotCover preferences in many other ways. For example, you can keep your personal preferences in Dropbox and use them on different machines.

  • Preferences from different setting files are applied as layers so that if the same setting has different values in different setting files the value from the 'upper' layer is used. This allows you to override settings defined in a specific setting file instead of changing them in this file.