A number of astute developers have noted that the C# code style enforced by Microsoft StyleCop differs in some ways from the style typically seen in sample code coming from the Microsoft Developer Division. For example, the very fine book Framework Design...

The following article describes how to integrate StyleCop into the build, so that the tool will run automatically whenever a build is performed: http://blogs.msdn.com/sourceanalysis/pages/source-analysis-msbuild-integration.aspx

Since the release of StyleCop, many people have pointed out that a number of the rules enforced by the tool could be automatically corrected by the tool, without requiring the developer to do the corrections manually. As you might imagine, this functionality...

We are very excited to announce the release of a new developer tool from Microsoft, Source Analysis for C#. This tool is known internally within Microsoft as StyleCop, and has been used for many years now to help teams enforce a common set of best practices...