Tutorial on writing your own Code Analysis rule- January 18, 2008 Jason Kresowaty has posted a great tutorial on writing Code AnalysisFxCop rules. He also spends time on explaining parts of the Introspection API, including the different nodes and their relationship to each other. It's a great read, even if you've written some Code Analysis rules before. Definitely recommended.http://blogs.msdn.com/fxcop/archive/2008/01/18/tutorial-on-writing-your-own-code-analysis-... What do you want to see in the second edition of Framework Design Guidelines- January 15, 2008 Krzysztof and Brad have announced they are working on the second edition of the awesome Framework Design Guidelines and are looking for feedback on what they should put in it. For those that don't know, a lot of our Code Analysis rules are based on the writings in this great book, so expect to see additional rules in the future based on the new guidelines in the second edition. To provide feedback, head over to Krzysztof's blog and post a comment.http://blogs.msdn.com/fxcop/archive/2008/01/15/what-do-you-want-to-see-in-the-second-editi... FAQ: Which Code Analysis rules shipped in which version- January 7, 2008 In response to a lot of recent requests, we've put together a complete list of rules that shipped in the different versions of Visual Studio Code Analysis and FxCop. Attached is an Excel worksheet providing this information for Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, FxCop 1.35 and FxCop 1.36 Beta. One of things you'll notice as you read through the list is that we removed some rules from the later versions. There are a few reasons for this: Noise and applicability. We use feedback from...http://blogs.msdn.com/fxcop/archive/2008/01/07/faq-which-rules-shipped-in-which-version.as... Reporting Code Analysis Defect Counts- January 2, 2008 Code analysis defect counts are available in the cube that is part of the TFS Data Warehouse. This post shows you how to hook up Excel to show code analysis counts in a pivot table. First off you need to connect Excel up to the data warehouse that has the data. Under the Data tab in Excel select From Other Sources, From Analysis Services. Then you need to give the name of the server with the data warehouse. In the standalone TFS case this will be whatever machine is running TFS....http://blogs.msdn.com/fxcop/archive/2008/01/02/reporting-code-analysis-defect-counts.aspx |