Microsoft Style Cop 4.3 Released
Microsoft Style Cop 4.3 – Code Gallery Home Page
Microsoft Style Cop on MSDN Blogs
All along the road .NET programmers have been damned for the lack of having a coding style monitoring tools analogous to CheckStyle for Java. More often than not we tend to lean towards for other tools like Microsoft FxCop (which is now packaged as a part of Visual Studio from VS2008 SP1 onwards, which I personally think they were a release or two late in doing that.)
Sometime around May ’08 a MSFT employee called Jason Allor released a version of Style Cop (Then called the Microsoft Source Analysis Tool) which was used by Microsoft internally (see here). The initial version was somewhat incomplete without Documentation or an SDK to author custom tools. But since its 4.3 release which comes a neatly written Documentation & an SDK.
Style Cop installs as an Add-in to Visual Studio. And has a pretty aggressive default setting for coding standards.
A simple tutorial to get our feet wet will be posted in my next blog post. So Stick around !!
