Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries, Second Edition

B Using FxCop to Enforce the Framework Design Guidelines

Sheridan Harrison and David Kean

FXCOP IS A tool that analyzes managed assemblies and reports issues when an assembly does not conform to one or more Framework Design Guidelines. After presenting a brief introduction to FxCop and how it has evolved over time, this appendix discusses FxCop rules that enforce each set of guidelines.

MIKE FANNING   Over the past several years, FxCop has also expanded into a general correctness checker for managed code implementations. Although its original (and still primary) purpose is programmatic enforcement of the Framework Design Guidelines, we will continue ...