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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 | 11 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
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
Tuesday, August 08, 2006 8:56 PM

TIP: How to change the FxCop naming/design rules to fire on internals [David Kean]

By default, the FxCop naming and design rules only fire on publicly visible types and members. There are a couple reasons for this: The .NET Framework Design Guidelines , which FxCop enforces, only contains guidelines for publicly visible API. What internal
Posted by David M. Kean | 4 Comments
Tuesday, April 04, 2006 5:45 PM

FAQ: How do I indicate to DoNotDeclareReadOnlyMutableReferenceTypes that a type is immutable? [David Kean]

DoNotDeclareReadOnlyMutableReferenceTypes is a rule that checks for visible read-only fields that are mutable reference types (classes). A mutable type is a type whose instance data can be changed once it has been constructed. For example, the following
Posted by David M. Kean | 2 Comments
 
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