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February 2007 - Posts

Wednesday, February 28, 2007 8:00 AM

Announcing Visual Studio Code Metrics!

Announcing the new Code Metrics feature for Visual Studio ‘Orcas’! Available in Visual Studio Team Developer and Team Suite, this new feature allows users to generate code metrics for projects and solutions and displays the results in the Code Metrics
Posted by David M. Kean | 56 Comments
Sunday, February 25, 2007 8:00 AM

Framework for intergrated FxCop rule testing

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 positive
Posted by David M. Kean | 6 Comments
Saturday, February 24, 2007 8:00 AM

FAQ: How do I run FxCop during a post-build event?

A little known feature of FxCop (in particular FxCopCmd.exe) is its ability to be integrated into the build process within Visual Studio. Although not a replacement for the Code Analysis functionality available within both Visual Studio Team Edition for
Posted by David M. Kean | 3 Comments
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 8:00 AM

Code Analysis (Team System) MSDN Chat Roundup

Another successful Team System chat with over 150+ questions asked. Thank-you to everyone that attended. The following is a list of Code Analysis questions that were asked: DavidKean_MS (Moderator): Q: any ETA for a FxCop SDK ? A: I assume you mean a
Posted by David M. Kean | 2 Comments
Wednesday, February 07, 2007 8:00 AM

Free 'Writing Quality Code' e-book (with information on both Native and Managed Code Analysis)

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
Posted by David M. Kean | 10 Comments
Monday, February 05, 2007 8:00 AM

Code Analysis (Team System) Chat This Wed

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what's new in the latest Community
Posted by David M. Kean | 1 Comments
Saturday, February 03, 2007 8:00 AM

What resolutions or warnings need to provide more information?

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
Posted by David M. Kean | 9 Comments
Thursday, February 01, 2007 8:00 AM

How to Design Exception Hierarchies

Krzysztof Cwalina, owner of the Framework Design Guidelines , has written a great post on designing exception hierarchies . He gives a great overview on the different categories of exceptions, which are placed under two main buckets he calls usage and
Posted by David M. Kean | 0 Comments
 
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