We have a great new feature that we are previewing in Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System code name “Rosario” November 2007 CTP .  This feature allows you to select pre-defined sets of rules to configure code analysis as well...

Another question that is coming up is: How can (or should) code metrics be presented to management ? My view is that in all cases the metrics are something that can help make decisions around focus and prioritization. Management should be made aware of...

Another question: The maintainability index has been re-set to lie between 0 and 100. How and why was this done? The metric originally was calculated as follows: Maintainability Index = 171 - 5.2 * ln(Halstead Volume) - 0.23 * (Cyclomatic Complexity...

This is the first in a series of posts around questions I am getting asked related to code metrics. One question that is coming up is: Can a check-in policy be defined based on code metrics in TFS? Well, code metrics itself does not have a check...

A number of people have asked: Is there a way to customize the existing code metrics or add additional ones? The simple answer at this time is No.  There are no extension points or customizations available at this time for code metrics.  This...