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A New Version of FxCop

Submitted by Bevan on Sun, 17/10/2010 - 10:40

After a very long time indeed, we finally have a new version of FxCop to play with.

While the Source Code Analysis tool integrated into Visual Studio has been upgraded, the standalone version of FxCop has gone a long time without any updates at all.

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Working with fxCop

Submitted by Bevan on Mon, 27/09/2010 - 15:17

So I've finally managed to get fxCop officially adopted on a work project (*). Better yet, thanks to an upgrade, we now are using the Ultimate Edition of Visual Studio: I no longer have to use the command line of fxCop . Instead, It's integrated right into the build.

Of course, no improvement goes unpunished.

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Gource for Software Visualization

Submitted by Bevan on Fri, 13/08/2010 - 17:24

At this weeks .NET user group, a friend mentioned Gource, a tool that generates a dynamic visualization that shows how a project evolves over time, based on the commits made to source control.

After finding one movie on the Xero blog, I decided to have a go and see what it looked like when run over a large project I've worked on for the last couple of years.

It looks gorgeous:

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Things to install on a new machine

Submitted by Bevan on Sat, 10/04/2010 - 14:37

Roy Osherove has posted a list of things he installs on any new developer machine, including links so you can find out more.

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An Obscure FxCop feature

Submitted by Bevan on Tue, 16/02/2010 - 09:20

This has to qualify as an obscure FxCop feature:

DoNotDeclareReadOnlyMutableReferenceTypes is a rule that checks for visible read-only fields that are mutable reference types (classes). A mutable type is a type whose instance data can be changed once it has been constructed.

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