FxCop 1.36 Released!

David Kean — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:21:00 GMT

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, missing analysis and rule crashes

Support for analyzing anonymous methods and lambda expressions

New option for skipping analysis over tool generated code

Spell checker libraries now ship in the box

Changes in the way references are resolved and located

Better support for C++/CLI and the Compact Framework

Language 'friendly' API names in the UI and resolutions (ie Visual Basic syntax if running over a Visual Basic binary)

New globalization, design and usage rules

New rule for targeting specific versions of the Framework

Performance improvements that cut analysis by 2x and use half as much memory

Documentation that is now available on MSDN

This is a great release - download it, and feel free to head over to the Code Analysis forum to tell my old team what you think.

FxCop has a cousin and its name is ‘StyleCop’

David Kean — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:00:00 GMT

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!

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FxCop 1.36 Released!

FxCop has a cousin and its name is ‘StyleCop’