StyleCop is an open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 static code analysis

Static code analysis

Static program analysis is the analysis of computer software that is performed without actually executing programs built from that software In most cases the analysis is performed on some version of the source code and in the other cases some form of the object code...

 tool from Microsoft

Microsoft

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 that checks C# code for conformance to StyleCop's recommended coding styles and a subset of Microsoft's .NET Framework Design Guidelines. StyleCop analyzes the source code

Source code

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, allowing it to enforce a different set of rules from FxCop

FxCop

FxCop is a free static code analysis tool from Microsoft that checks .NET managed code assemblies for conformance to Microsoft's .NET Framework Design Guidelines. Unlike the lint programming tool for the C programming language, FxCop analyzes the compiled object code, not the original source code...

. The rules are classified into the following categories:

• Documentation
• Layout
• Maintainability
• Naming
• Ordering
• Readability
• Spacing

StyleCop includes both GUI

Gui

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 and command line versions of the tool. It is possible to create new rules to be used.

StyleCop was re-released as an open source project in April 2010 at http://stylecop.codeplex.com.

External links

• StyleCop homepage
• StyleCop blog
• StyleCop For ReSharper. A third party tool which integrates StyleCop into the ReSharper
  ReSharper
  ReSharper is a refactoring and productivity extension by JetBrains that extends native functionality of Microsoft Visual Studio 2003, 2005, 2008 and 2010....
  
  toolset.