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Monday, January 22, 2007 8:00 AM

FAQ: What exception should I throw instead of the reserved exceptions that DoNotRaiseReservedExceptionTypes warns against?

Throwing a general exception type such as System.Exception or System.SystemException in a library or Framework forces consumers to catch all exceptions, including unknown exceptions that they do not know how to handle (see FAQ: Why does FxCop warn against
Posted by David M. Kean | 14 Comments
Sunday, January 14, 2007 8:00 AM

FAQ: How do I fix a violation of MovePInvokesToNativeMethodsClass?

MovePInvokesToNativeMethodsClass fires on P/Invokes (ie methods marked with DllImport) that are not members of one of the following classes; NativeMethods, SafeNativeMethods or UnsafeNativeMethods. For example, the following sample fires this warning.
Posted by David M. Kean | 2 Comments
Monday, June 19, 2006 9:16 PM

FAQ: Why does FxCop warn against catch(Exception)? - Part 3 [Nick Guerrera]

This is the third installment in a three-part series on why FxCop warns against catch(Exception): FAQ: Why does FxCop warn against catch(Exception)? - Part 1 FAQ: Why does FxCop warn against catch(Exception)? - Part 2 FAQ: Why does FxCop warn against
Posted by nicholg | 22 Comments
Saturday, June 17, 2006 10:04 PM

FAQ: Why does FxCop warn against catch(Exception)? - Part 2 [Nick Guerrera]

This is the second installment in a three-part series on why FxCop warns against catch(Exception): FAQ: Why does FxCop warn against catch(Exception)? - Part 1 FAQ: Why does FxCop warn against catch(Exception)? - Part 2 FAQ: Why does FxCop warn against
Posted by nicholg | 28 Comments
Wednesday, June 14, 2006 11:11 PM

FAQ: Why does FxCop warn against catch(Exception)? - Part 1 [Nick Guerrera]

This is the first installment in a three-part series on why FxCop warns against catch(Exception): FAQ: Why does FxCop warn against catch(Exception)? - Part 1 FAQ: Why does FxCop warn against catch(Exception)? - Part 2 FAQ: Why does FxCop warn against
Posted by nicholg | 26 Comments
Thursday, April 27, 2006 2:20 PM

FAQ: Why does DoNotExposeGenericLists recommend that I expose Collection<T> instead of List<T>? [David Kean]

DoNotExposeGenericLists fires when I publicly expose List<T> via a field, method, property, or parameter. Why? Although Krzysztof briefly touched on this last year , we wanted to expand on this a little through the use of examples. The first reason
Posted by David M. Kean | 3 Comments
Wednesday, April 05, 2006 8:21 PM

FAQ: Why do some sources recommend extending ApplicationException while FxCop does not? [Michael Fanning, David Kean]

TypesShouldNotExtendCertainBaseTypes fires on types that derive from ApplicationException and DoNotRaiseReservedExceptionTypes on members that throw ApplicationException. Why? There are several outdated documents floating around on the web (some orginally
Posted by David M. Kean | 7 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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