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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:44 AM

CCI - the new open-source metadata reader

Herman Ventor , the brains behind FxCop's assembly metadata reader, has just released the next version as an open-source project over on CodePlex. The Common Compiler Infrastructure (CCI) is a set of components for reading and writing CLR assemblies...
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Thursday, February 19, 2009 7:00 AM

Make sure you use the tools at your disposal

I ran across something interesting on an internal alias about a new marketing campaign on the Visual Studio Team System marketing site that allows you to customize an amusing video that you can send to friends and team members. What caught my eye wasn...
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Friday, December 26, 2008 7:00 AM

Code Analysis failing with ‘Invalid settings passed to CodeAnalysis task’

I’ve seen recent reports of Visual Studio Code Analysis failing (such as this one ) with the following error: Invalid settings passed to CodeAnalysis task.  See output window for details. Looking in the output window will show something similar to...
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Saturday, November 29, 2008 7:00 AM

BUG: Multi-targeting rule not firing on usages of 2.0 SP2 and 3.0 SP2

Previously, I've spoken about the new multi-targeting rule that shipped in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and FxCop 1.36. This rule helps to prevent users from inadvertently taking a dependency on a .NET service pack. Unfortunately, it shipped with a bug...
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Sunday, November 23, 2008 7:00 AM

Framework Design Guidelines - 2nd Edition Released

In case you missed it, the second edition of the Framework Design Guidelines has been released . This time around I had the great opportunity to contribute and update the FxCop section at the back of the book. The original edition was a great book, and...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008 7:00 AM

Breaking changes to the String class

You may have already read Justin Van Patten's post about the upcoming breaking changes to the String class for .NET 4.0 . This change will affect the behavior of the String.StartsWith , String. EndsWith , String. IndexOf and String. LastIndexOf methods...
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Monday, August 25, 2008 7:00 AM

New for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and FxCop 1.36 – Multi-targeting rule

Update: Note there is currently a bug in this rule that prevents it from firing on .NET 2.0 SP2 and .NET 3.0 SP2 added APIs when targeting .NET 3.5. See BUG: Multi-targeting rule not firing on usages of 2.0 SP2 and 3.0 SP2 for more information. Back in...
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Friday, August 22, 2008 7:00 AM

New for FxCop 1.36 - Privates and internals are grayed out in the tree

One of the small, but rather useful changes we made in 1.36 was to gray out privates and internals in the Targets tree. This makes it quick and easy to see the public API for a particular assembly. This is similar to the feature already available in ...
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Sunday, August 17, 2008 8:21 PM

FxCop 1.36 Released!

After what has to be the longest beta period for a product (after Gmail) - we've finally released the final version of FxCop 1.36 . I've talked in the past about some the improvements in this release, including: 200+ bug fixes that reduce noise...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 7:00 AM

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...
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Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:00 AM

Reference resolution changes in Code Analysis and FxCop – Part 2

Previously , I mentioned the reference resolution changes that were made in Code Analysis for 2008 and FxCop 1.36. Unfortunately, not long after we shipped Visual Studio 2008, we found an uncommon scenario in which the strong name matching prevented Code...
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 7:00 AM

Reference resolution changes in Code Analysis and FxCop – Part 1

Another thing that we changed in Visual Studio 2008 Code Analysis and FxCop 1.36 , was the way we resolved and located references. These changes came down to two distinct behavior changes: Strong names of references must now match. Assemblies must now...
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Sunday, June 08, 2008 7:00 AM

FxCop now ships with the spell checker libraries

One thing that we changed in FxCop 1.36 , is that it now ships with the spell checker libraries out-of-the-box. This means that you no longer need to install Office on your development and build machine boxes to get the spelling and compound word rules...
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