FxCop has a cousin and its name is ‘StyleCop’
For the past couple of years, I spent considerable time saying the same statement over and over again in forums, emails and blog posts; ‘unfortunately, as FxCop runs over compiled binaries, it cannot analyze source-based constructs, such as whitespace, braces and comments.’ While saying this, in the back of my mind I knew we had a very capable tool, StyleCop, used internally at Microsoft that could do this very thing.
When Jason Allor contacted me at the end of last year with his plan to release StyleCop to the rest of the world – I was overjoyed; no longer would I need to keep this gem of a tool to myself.
Now I know I’m a little late to the party, however, late last month Microsoft Source Analysis for C# (aka StyleCop) was released upon the unsuspecting programming community. You can download the latest version directly from http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/sourceanalysis.
Congratulations to Jason and his team!