Code Analysis Team Blog

One not very well known feature that lights up when connected to a Team Foundation Server, is the ability to enforce that Code Analysis be run before every check-in. Called a Code Analysis Policy , this feature allows your team to find and fix Code Analysis...

Version 10.0 of FxCop is the version that ships with Visual Studio 2010 Premium. FxCop 10.0 is part of Version 7.1 of the Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4. Instructions Download the Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET...

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...

Code analysis defect counts are available in the cube that is part of the TFS Data Warehouse . This post shows you how to hook up Excel to show code analysis counts in a pivot table . First off you need to connect Excel up to the data warehouse that has...

Some of the local Australian developers have got together and written a e-book on Writing Quality Code with Visual Studio Team System. It contains chapters on both Native and Managed Code Analysis, as well unit and web testing, performance-tuning and...

One of things that we are doing for Orcas, is to basically do what we call a resolution scrub . This is where we print out every single possible resolution/warning and read over them to check for consistency, proper grammer and to see if they provide...

Update: A Virtual PC image is also available. We've just released the Visual Studio 'Orcas' - January CTP . This is the first of the side-by-side installable CTPs, however, before installing, please read the Release Notes and do not install this on...

If your team has a minbar of Managed Code Analysis rules that must be explicitly fixed or suppressed, it is possible to share the Managed Code Analysis rule settings over multiple MSBuild projects (.csproj, .vbproj). To share the minbar between multiple...

Krzysztof and Brad have announced they are working on the second edition of the awesome Framework Design Guidelines and are looking for feedback on what they should put in it. For those that don't know, a lot of our Code Analysis rules are based on...

Update: You can now download FxCop 1.35 directly from MSDN Code Gallery . As you many you have well noticed, GotDotNet was officially retired last month now that the last of its functionality was superceded by MSDN Code Gallery . Unfortunately, at...

Our excellent program manager, Joe Rohde, is trying to gather information on the kinds of custom rules customers want to write. I am a program manager for our Code Analysis system. I want to know what kind of custom rules you would like to write...

Yesterday our team, Code Analysis, checked-in the last of our scheduled feature work for the next version of Visual Studio; Orcas . Now that I have a little time up my sleeve, I thought I would cover a couple of new features that you may have already...

Both Code Analysis, FxCop and Code Metrics make extensive use of CompilerGeneratedAttribute and GeneratedCodeAttribute to distinguish between user-written code and tool and compiler generated code. The following describes this behavior: Code Analysis...

We get frequently asked what the best way is for people to move from the standalone FxCop to VS Code Analysis. A hurdle in making the switch is the fact that people can no longer use the FxCop project file they created for their analysis. This will invalidate...

TypesShouldNotExtendCertainBaseTypes fires on types that derive from ApplicationException and DoNotRaiseReservedExceptionTypes on members that throw ApplicationException. Why? There are several outdated documents floating around on the web (some orginally...

Hello and welcome to the FxCop Team Blog! One of our team resolutions for this year (besides just trying to be generally nicer people) is to start an FxCop blog so here it is! Our goal is a single URL where we serve up tips and information about the FxCop...

Just a heads up that FxCop 1.30 testing is right on track and we expect to ship on http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/fxcop by the end of this month, March 2004, as expected!

One thing you might notice from today when you fire up FxCop 1.35 , is that the rule URLs are now redirecting to the new MSDN Library Wiki as opposed to the old docs on GotDotNet. To see this in action, try the following: Open FxCop 1.35 Choose...

Roy Osherove has put together a Framework for testing FxCop rules . It's an interesting approach, firing up the FxCop engine for each rule that he wants to test. There are few things that I would like to see it support: The ability to specify...

While Ian Huff has already talked about the new 'Developer' menu that has been added to Visual Studio 2008, I thought I would briefly mention some of the changes to it that were made between Beta 2 and RTM. For those that have yet to see this menu...

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...

I've upgraded from FxCop 1.35 to 1.36 and now FxCop has started to fire warnings against typed DataSets and other generated code. How do I turn this off? The reason this is occurring is because we changed the way that FxCop analyzed generated code. Whereas...

This blog explains how to implement your own static code analysis rules for analyzing your .NET (C#, VB.NET, etc) code. The material was written by Todd King, one of the developers on the Visual Studio Code Analysis team.   NOTE: Writing custom FxCop...

Two weeks ago, I introduced you to Visual Studio 2010 September '08 CTP (Community Technology Preview). This CTP is available as a Virtual PC (VPC) image which can be downloaded at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=129231 . The goal of the Community...