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August 2007 - Posts

Monday, August 20, 2007 7:00 AM

New for Visual Studio 2008 - Custom Dictionaries

Once you turn on the new spelling rules that we've added to Visual Studio 2008, you will want to start to customize the words that it fires on; this is where the new custom dictionary support comes in. A custom dictionary in its basic form, similar to
Posted by David M. Kean | 10 Comments
Sunday, August 12, 2007 7:00 AM

New for Visual Studio 2008 - Spelling rules

Surprisingly, one the biggest requests for Code Analysis in Visual Studio 2005 was to include the spelling rules that shipped with the FxCop standalone. We had Microsoft consultants tell us that they actually had trouble moving some customers from FxCop
Posted by David M. Kean | 13 Comments
Thursday, August 09, 2007 7:00 AM

What rules do Microsoft have turned on internally?

I've recently received a few requests asking about the Code Analysis rules we run internally against Microsoft's own code. While it might come as a surprise, we do not actually run every single rule against our own binaries. There are many reasons for
Posted by David M. Kean | 19 Comments
Wednesday, August 08, 2007 8:00 AM

$(CodeAnalysisTreatWarningAsErrors) MSBuild property

For Visual Studio 2008, we have added a new MSBuild property that allows you to easily treat all Code Analysis warnings as build errors. This can be useful for example, if you want to force that any firing of a Code Analysis rule to break the build during
Posted by David M. Kean | 2 Comments
 
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