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May 2007 - Posts

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 8:00 AM

FAQ: How do I debug a custom rule?

While writing your custom rule, you will likely come across a need to debug it and work out why it's behaving in a particular manner. Debugging within FxCop Debugging a custom rule within the FxCop UI is actually quite easy. To do so, simply: Open the
Posted by David M. Kean | 3 Comments
Saturday, May 12, 2007 8:00 AM

FAQ: Why is file and line information available for some warnings in FxCop but not for others?

It appears that sometimes FxCop displays a link to the source line and file in the Message Details window and sometimes it doesn't. Why this inconsistent behavior? There are three usual reasons why this occurs: Source lookup is disabled. To turn source
Posted by David M. Kean | 1 Comments
Thursday, May 10, 2007 8:00 AM

Krzysztof Cwalina on Framework Design Guidelines and API Design

A lecture on API design by Krzysztof Cwalina (the brains behind the Framewok Design Guidelines ) has been posted on the Research Channel . This class presents best practices for designing frameworks that are reusable object-oriented libraries. The guidelines
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Tuesday, May 08, 2007 8:00 AM

TIP: How to change the (Orcas) Managed Code Analysis naming/design rules to fire on internals

A while ago I mentioned that FxCop (and hence Managed Code Analysis) naming and design rules only fire on publicly visible types and members. As you may recall, there were a couple of reason for this: The .NET Framework Design Guidelines , which FxCop/Managed
Posted by David M. Kean | 1 Comments
Sunday, May 06, 2007 8:00 AM

Visual Studio 'Orcas' Beta 1 Released!

If you've been living under a rock (or just distracted by this Silverlight thingy), you might have missed that we've released Beta 1 of Visual Studio 'Orcas' . This release include a number of changes to Code Analysis when compared to Visual Studio 2005,
Posted by David M. Kean | 0 Comments
Friday, May 04, 2007 8:00 AM

Dealing with a Code Analysis backlog?

Nicole Calinoiu has started a (what I hope to be long) series on introducing Code Analysis (FxCop in particular) to your team. Her first couple of posts are absolute rippers , check them out: FxCop and the big, bad backlog FxCop backlogs: Some rules for
Posted by David M. Kean | 1 Comments
Wednesday, May 02, 2007 8:00 AM

Code Analysis (Team System) Chat Roundup

We had two great chats last Friday . Thank-you to all that attended, I had a lot of fun. The following is a list of Code Analysis questions that were asked: Code Metrics DavidKean_MS (Moderator): Q: JeffBe: I'm very interested in the code metrics, are
Posted by David M. Kean | 2 Comments
 
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