Re: FxCop does anyone use it ?

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Soren,

It has sense and nonsense, you have to finetune the tool I guess:

For instance it founds out if you catch Exception if you could have
catched more specific Exceptions.

But also it tells us that we cant use three Capitals behind each other
for namespace names while our company is known by those capitals..

Rick


On Tue, 10 May 2005 08:17:10 -0700, "Frank Hileman"
<frankhil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>We use it, and we think it is great. However, the guidelines have evolved at
>the same time we developed our framework, so we find "new" warnings on old
>code often when we upgrade FxCop. Internal MS code breaks many guidelines.
>
>Despite these problems, it is a great tool. It has found many small
>usability, performance, and localization problems in our API and our code in
>general. We could never have complied to so many guidelines without FxCop.
>You will notice that new warnings come out in bold, so they are easier to
>track -- and generally more important.
>
>Regards,
>Frank Hileman
>
>check out VG.net: http://www.vgdotnet.com
>Animated vector graphics system
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>
>"Søren Reinke" <soren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:d5pv4b$2oua$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Hi there
>>
>> I have played around a bit with FxCop.
>>
>> Does anyone use it ? Some of the warning/errors it gives are okay, when
>> there are implementation errors, but i think it is annoying it keeps
>> complaining about how i case my variables and more.
>>
>> What is your oppinion about the program ?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Søren Reinke
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>

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