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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 | 2 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
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 9:11 PM

FxCop 1.36 Released!

We are pleased to announce that we've released the next version of FxCop . This release has a number of changes since FxCop 1.36 Beta 2, including, but not limited to, the following: Bug fixes that reduce noise, missing analysis and rule crashes. New
Posted by brettwo | 11 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
Thursday, February 01, 2007 8:00 AM

How to Design Exception Hierarchies

Krzysztof Cwalina, owner of the Framework Design Guidelines , has written a great post on designing exception hierarchies . He gives a great overview on the different categories of exceptions, which are placed under two main buckets he calls usage and
Posted by David M. Kean | 0 Comments
Thursday, January 18, 2007 8:00 AM

TIP: Automatically generate Managed Code Analysis/FxCop suppressions

I see a lot of users attempting to hand code a SuppressMessageAttribute themselves. This can be error prone and is not needed when both Visual Studio and the standalone FxCop can automatically generate these for you. In Visual Studio 2005 Right-click
Posted by David M. Kean | 1 Comments
Saturday, January 06, 2007 5:00 PM

And now back to your regularly scheduled FxCop documentation...

As a lot of you noticed, just before Christmas all of our rule documentation links broke from within FxCop. Unfortunately, due to the timing (and with the required people on holidays), we could not get this fixed as soon as we had hoped. However, as of
Posted by David M. Kean | 0 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
Thursday, June 29, 2006 5:35 PM

FxCop 1.35 rule documentation now on MSDN Wiki [David Kean]

One thing you might notice from today when you fire up FxCop 1.35 , is that the rule URLs are now redirecting to the new MSDN Library Wiki as opposed to the old docs on GotDotNet. To see this in action, try the following: Open FxCop 1.35 Choose Windows
Posted by David M. Kean | 6 Comments
 
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