Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Browse by Tags

All Tags » Code Analysis » FxCop   (RSS)
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 7:55 PM

Fun with Code Analysis Rule Sets

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
Posted by cristend | 5 Comments
Thursday, October 30, 2008 6:05 PM

New Code Analysis Features in Visual Studio 2010 September '08 CTP

At this year's PDC, Microsoft released 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
Posted by cristend | 2 Comments
Monday, August 25, 2008 7:00 AM

New for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and FxCop 1.36 – Multi-targeting rule

I've just published a post over my blog about a new feature we added for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and FxCop 1.36. New for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and FxCop 1.36 – Multi-targeting rule
Posted by David M. Kean | 1 Comments
Thursday, February 28, 2008 10:39 AM

FAQ: How do I prevent FxCop 1.36 from firing warnings against generated code?

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
Posted by David M. Kean | 5 Comments
Filed under: , ,
Friday, January 18, 2008 7:00 AM

Tutorial on writing your own Code Analysis rule

Jason Kresowaty has posted a great tutorial on writing Code Analysis/FxCop rules . He also spends time on explaining parts of the Introspection API, including the different nodes and their relationship to each other. It's a great read, even if you've
Posted by David M. Kean | 4 Comments
Monday, January 07, 2008 10:04 AM

FAQ: Which Code Analysis rules shipped in which version?

In response to a lot of recent requests, we've put together a complete list of rules that shipped in the different versions of Visual Studio Code Analysis and FxCop. Attached is an Excel worksheet providing this information for Visual Studio 2005, Visual
Posted by David M. Kean | 9 Comments
Attachment(s): CodeAnalysisRules.xls
Tuesday, December 04, 2007 9:16 AM

Come chat with the Code Analysis team tomorrow

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Team Foundation Server, Team Suite, Architecture Edition, Development Edition, Database Edition, and Test Edition. In addition, discuss what's new for these editions
Posted by David M. Kean | 1 Comments
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 10:52 PM

Try the Code Analysis Rule Sets Feature in the November "Rosario" November 2007 CTP

We have a great new feature that we are previewing in Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System code name “Rosario” November 2007 CTP .  This feature allows you to select pre-defined sets of rules to configure code analysis as well
Posted by conorm | 2 Comments
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 1:09 PM

FxCop 1.36 Beta Released!

I'm pleased to announce that we've released a beta of the next version of FxCop . This release has a number of changes since FxCop 1.35, including, but not limited to, the following: 200+ bug fixes that reduce noise, missing analysis and rule crashes
Posted by David M. Kean | 22 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 | 20 Comments
Thursday, July 05, 2007 8:00 AM

FxCop Designers Honored with the Engineering Excellence Chairman's Award

Mike Fanning, Krzysztof Cwalina , and Brad Abrams were awarded with the Engineering Excellence Chairman's Award for the design of FxCop, which is given for contributions that Bill Gates considers extremely important: The Engineering Excellence Chairman's
Posted by David M. Kean | 1 Comments
Wednesday, July 04, 2007 8:00 AM

What kind of custom rules do you want to write?

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. Ignore
Posted by David M. Kean | 8 Comments
Monday, July 02, 2007 10:50 PM

Come chat with the Team System product team tomorrow

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 upcoming Orcas
Posted by David M. Kean | 0 Comments
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
More Posts Next page »
 
Page view tracker