C# 4.0 Unleashed

Code Analysis

One of the biggest merits of good framework design is to have common patterns and conventions that make developers feel at home when discovering your application programming interface (API). It should be no surprise that tools have been written to enforce those goals by means of static, compile-time analysis of code. It turns out such tools can also be used to point out a plethora of common bugs or suboptimal development practices.

Collectively known as “code analysis” in Visual Studio, all those static compile-time checks provide a great means to be vigilant about certain aspects of code quality in a continuous manner. Starting with Visual Studio 2010, code analysis rules have been grouped in so-called rule sets, which control ...