re: My Visual Studio 2008 Code Analysis Rules

PeterRitchie — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:23:27 GMT

@Paulo I've run the rules without problem in both the RTM version of 2008 (9.0.21022.8 RTM) and the SP1 version of 2008. (9.0.30729.1 SP).

If you've installed a Beta, I recommend uninstalling it before upgrading to a non-beta version. Sometimes this means completely uninstalling all Visual Studio versions to get it to work proberly.

Visual Studio betas are not kind to your machine.

re: My Visual Studio 2008 Code Analysis Rules

Paulo — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:18:02 GMT

Loading this in the a non-Beta 2008 (9.0.21022.8 RTM) gives me an error:

Error 208 CA0053 : Unable to load rule assembly 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Team Tools\Static Analysis Tools\FxCop\Rules\PRI.CodeAnalysis.Rules.Design.dll': Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information.

Is this something in my configuration, or did something change from the Beta that broke these rules?

I'm chasing a debugger crash issue that I think may be related to a recursive property, so this rule of yours would be extremely helpful!

For completeness, here's what I have loaded:

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

Version 9.0.21022.8 RTM

Microsoft .NET Framework

Version 3.5

Installed Edition: Enterprise

Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 91899-153-0000007-60707

Microsoft Visual Basic 2008

Microsoft Visual C# 2008 91899-153-0000007-60707

Microsoft Visual C# 2008

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 91899-153-0000007-60707

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Explorer 91899-153-0000007-60707

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Explorer

Version 9.0.21022.8

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Tools for Office 91899-153-0000007-60707

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Tools for Office

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Architecture Edition 91899-153-0000007-60707

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Architecture Edition

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition 91899-153-0000007-60707

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition 91899-153-0000007-60707

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition Copyright © 1992 Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition 91899-153-0000007-60707

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition

Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 91899-153-0000007-60707

Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008

Crystal Reports AAJ60-G0MSA4K-68000CF

Crystal Reports Basic for Visual Studio 2008

Thanks!

re: My Visual Studio 2008 Code Analysis Rules

Nel — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:26:29 GMT

Peter, you rule. Everywhere I look about C#, I see your name :)

re: My Visual Studio 2008 Code Analysis Rules

David M. Kean — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:19:16 GMT

Nice work!

Have a look at RuleUtilities.GetInstancePointer to solve the DoNotRecursivelyReferenceProperty false positives. DoNotCallOverrideableInConstructors does a similar thing.

Regards

David