This is a false positive due to a minor bug in the rule itself. When trying to figure out if a class re-implements IDisposable (after figuring out that there’s a base class implementation that could be overridden), it only looks at whether the class’ interfaces include IDisposable. Unfortunately, the interface list that shows up in … Read more
ruby -c myfile.rb will check for correct Ruby syntax. Reek checks Ruby code for common code smells. Roodi checks Ruby code for common object-oriented design issues. Flog can warn you about unusually complex code. [Plug] If your project is in a public Github repository, Caliper can run the latter three tools and others on your … Read more
It means you use no members of the object. All the items in the method come from the parameters. Therefore the method can safely be made static.
VS 2012 The best answer I have found so far is to drag the Code Analysis view’s tab away from the Solution explorer. I’ve docked mine below the Solution explorer and made it about 1 inch high – so I can still see what it is reporting on the rare occasions when I wish to … Read more
Just to clarify: not everyone agrees with the authors of StyleCop. Win32 and .NET guru Jeffrey Richter writes in his excellent book CLR via C#: The C# language specification states, “As a matter of style, use of the keyword is favored over use of the complete system type name.” I disagree with the language specification; … Read more
If you use it inside Visual Studio… From Visual Studio Code Analysis Team Blog To add a custom dictionary to a C# and Visual Basic project is simple: In Solution Explorer, right-click on the project and choose Add -> New Item… Under Templates, select XML File, enter a name for the dictionary, such as CodeAnalysisDictionary.xml … Read more
Just to supplement with a little more precise answer: You need to either run FxCopCmd.exe with: fxcopcmd.exe /assemblyCompareMode:StrongNameIgnoringVersion or modify your Visual Studio project file for each build configuration’s property group, like this: <PropertyGroup Condition=” ‘$(Configuration)|$(Platform)’ == ‘Release|AnyCPU’ “> … <CodeAnalysisAdditionalOptions>/assemblyCompareMode:StrongNameIgnoringVersion</CodeAnalysisAdditionalOptions> </PropertyGroup>
In the interest of keeping this question up-to-date, there is a fork of JSLint called JSHint. An explanation of why JSHint was created can be found here, but to summarize: JSHint is a fork of JSLint, the tool written and maintained by Douglas Crockford. JSLint served me well for quite some time but in the … Read more
One obvious answer for the Stack Overflow part is that it isn’t a forum. It is a database of questions and answers, which means that duplicate questions are attempted avoided. How many different questions about code quality can you think of? That is why there aren’t 50,000 questions about “code quality”. Apart from that, anyone … Read more
I use the following tools: PMD/CPD (BSD-style License). Checkstyle (LGPL License) – support was removed, see details. Both tools have code duplication detection support. But both of them lack the ability to advise you how to refactor your code. JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate has good static code analysis with code duplication support, but it is … Read more