fxcop – Page 2 – Tarik Billa

‘SuppressMessage’ for a whole namespace

January 29, 2023 by Tarik

Suppression of a code analysis warning for a namespace and all its descendant symbols is possible since Visual Studio 2019: [assembly: System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessage( “Microsoft.Naming”, “CA1707:IdentifiersShouldNotContainUnderscores”, Justification = “Test methods require underscores for readability.” Scope = “namespaceanddescendants”, Target = “Company.Product.Tests”)] Scope – The target on which the warning is being suppressed. If the target is not specified, … Read more

Stylecop vs FXcop

January 8, 2023 by Tarik

Stylecop is a style analysis tool that works at the source code level. It exists primarily to provide a single common style that managed projects can use to remain consistent within the larger world of managed software. It makes decisions regarding style primarily to avoid holy wars (after all, style is almost always an inherently … Read more

CA2202, how to solve this case

January 6, 2023 by Tarik

You should suppress the warnings in this case. Code that deals with disposables should be consistent, and you shouldn’t have to care that other classes take ownership of the disposables you created and also call Dispose on them. [SuppressMessage(“Microsoft.Usage”, “CA2202:Do not dispose objects multiple times”)] public static byte[] Encrypt(string data, byte[] key, byte[] iv) { … Read more

Why/when should you use nested classes in .net? Or shouldn’t you?

January 3, 2023 by Tarik

Use a nested class when the class you are nesting is only useful to the enclosing class. For instance, nested classes allow you to write something like (simplified): public class SortedMap { private class TreeNode { TreeNode left; TreeNode right; } } You can make a complete definition of your class in one place, you … Read more