If your team has ever spent 20 minutes on a pull request arguing about brace placement instead of the actual bug, welcome to the club.
StyleCop was the tool to keep C# codebases from turning into everyone's personal-style soup. It did its job. But it's also old, slow, and wasn't built for a world where half your codebase might be vibe coded.
The good news: .NET now ships with everything you need to enforce style natively, faster, and without an extra NuGet package. This post walks through why the old approach creaks under modern workloads, and gives you a copy-pasteable migration plan to fix it.
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The Real Cost of Style Debates
