I was a developer on the FxCop / Managed Code Analysis Team for 3 years and I have your answer. Things have changed since my time, and I had forgotten exactly how custom dictionary handling worked and so it took me quite a bit of time to figure this out. 🙂 Executive Summary The short … Read more
The latest version of FXCop (v10) is bundled with the install of the latest Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .Net 4, released on 5/19/2010. From Microsoft – Full ISOs Once the SDK is installed you can find the FXCop installer EXE under %programfiles%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin\FXCop (This assumes you kept the default install directory when installing … Read more
The NeutralResourcesLanguageAttribute informs the resource manager of the language that was used to display resources which are contained in the main assembly. E.g. if you coded your assembly so that it contains resources which are in English, then include the following line in your AssemblyInfo.cs [assembly: NeutralResourcesLanguage(“en”)] This way, when looking up resources in English, … Read more
If you use it inside Visual Studio… From Visual Studio Code Analysis Team Blog To add a custom dictionary to a C# and Visual Basic project is simple: In Solution Explorer, right-click on the project and choose Add -> New Item… Under Templates, select XML File, enter a name for the dictionary, such as CodeAnalysisDictionary.xml … Read more
From Wikipedia: One interesting quirk of MFC is the use of “Afx” as the prefix for many functions, macros and the standard precompiled header name “stdafx.h”. During early development what became MFC was called “Application Framework Extensions” and abbreviated “Afx”. The name Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) was adopted too late in the release cycle to … Read more
I agree with moose-in-the-jungle here: List<T> is an unconstrained, bloated object that has a lot of “baggage” in it. Fortunately the solution is simple: expose IList<T> instead. It exposes a barebones interface that has most all of List<T>‘s methods (with the exception of things like AddRange()) and it doesn’t constrain you to the specific List<T> … Read more
You need to override the Dispose method from Form Typically this is automatically overridden in the RestartForm.Designer.cs file, so you will need to move the dispose into your code file so that you can add whatever code you need to add without it being rewritten by the designer. In the RestartForm.cs protected override void Dispose(bool … Read more
Visual Studio includes FxCop + more. From the developer blog of FxCop: Sorry about my ignorance, but I assume FxCop is completely separate from the Code Analysis in VSTS? More specifically, I assume that if I install the new version of FxCop, VSTS will not take advantage (no shared code?)? If this is the case, … Read more
Lower camel case is recommended for fields and parameters. Example 1: fileName // for fields, parameters, etc. FileName // for properties, class names, etc. Generally, fileName is used and NOT filename; you can verify that by reading source code of open source stuff created by Microsoft, such as Enterprise Library. Reasons: The main point behind … Read more