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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
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
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
Saturday, February 03, 2007 8:00 AM

What resolutions or warnings need to provide more information?

One of things that we are doing for Orcas, is to basically do what we call a resolution scrub . This is where we print out every single possible resolution/warning and read over them to check for consistency, proper grammer and to see if they provide
Posted by David M. Kean | 9 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
Friday, January 12, 2007 8:00 AM

January Orcas CTP Released!

Update: A Virtual PC image is also available. We've just released the Visual Studio 'Orcas' - January CTP . This is the first of the side-by-side installable CTPs, however, before installing, please read the Release Notes and do not install this on a
Posted by David M. Kean | 9 Comments
 
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