FxCop is case-sensitive. VB is annoying.

re: FxCop is case-sensitive. VB is annoying.

calinoiu — Wed, 09 May 2007 22:13:16 GMT

We've actually got a custom FxCop rule planned that will be able to detect the case switch. It's basically a new namespace detector that's meant to be used for other purposes, but it will flag the case switching too. The new rule didn't have a very high priority compared to other stuff on my to-do list, but that's changing pretty quickly, particularly given that someone encountered another problem with dropped exclusions today.

re: FxCop is case-sensitive. VB is annoying.

Jonathan Perret — Wed, 09 May 2007 12:08:46 GMT

We were hit by this "pick-a-random-namespace-casing" behavior of the VB compiler a while ago. Note that it is not truly random but picks one of the casings it found in the source (most likely the first occurrence).

I turned to LibCheck to detect these kinds of changes. CC.NET runs LibCheck and if it suddenly reports a few hundred classes deleted, we know something's wrong.

Cheers,

--Jonathan