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Many of the developers in IT industry would not follow their coding standards in .Net if they are not aware of Microsoft FXCop. FxCop is a tool to analyze the code that checks .NET managed code assemblies for conformance to the Microsoft .NET Framework Design. It can inspect assemblies for more than 200 defects which uses reflection, MSIL parsing, and calligraphic analysis.

Some of the areas are Security, Naming conventions, Performance, Library design, Localization.

Why FxCop?

To ensure that coding standards such as naming conventions, localization etc., are according to company standards. To avoid poor coding Use of best practices Well formatted test reports. Increase performance. So it’s the duty of each and every developer to check coding to ensure quality of their code.

To create a project and run an FxCop analysis:

1. Start FxCop from the Start menu, or double-click FxCop.exe in the installation directory.

2. From the Project menu, select Add Targets.

3. Browse to the assembly (.exe or .dll file) to add, and click Open.

4. Run the analysis by clicking the Analyze button on the tool bar.

The analysis report is displayed in the messages pane. If there are no messages, this pane will be empty.

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