Friday, August 27, 2010

How to Use the Visual Studio Code Analysis Tool FxCop

In today's world, software security is the first and foremost requirement of any customer when you are developing a new application. But you can develop a secure application by mitigating all the risks in the development cycle itself.

The best way to mitigate software risks is by doing code reviews and code analysis throughout the development cycle.
Another positive aspect of code analysis is you can easily identify bugs early in the development cycle before those are identified by testers or even users of the application. Identifying and correcting critical bugs early in the software development cycle mitigates risks like reducing developer productivity, creating unnecessary bottlenecks in the software development lifecycle, increasing software development costs, etc. In this article I will discuss the integrated static code analysis tool (FxCop), introduced with Visual Studio 2010. Visual Studio code analysis rules are applicable for five different programming languages.

Read full article - http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/45499

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