Visual Studio Code Analysis vs StyleCop + FxCop

Question

I used previously StyleCop + FxCop on my Visual Studio\'s projects. But now I am testing Visual Studio Code Analysis tool, which is easier to integrate into MSBuild, and I h

Answer 1

My understanding is that Visual Studio Code Analysis is basically a slightly modified version of FxCop. From my experience they are almost the same thing (in fact I believe Code Analysis uses the FxCop executable behind the scenes).

Although there is overlap between FxCop/CodeAnalysis and StyleCop; FxCop tends to focus more on design rules and StyleCop is focusing on coding style (casing, white space, indents, etc).

Also FxCop analyzes the IL while StyleCop analyzes the source code directly. This imposes a different set of restrictions on what rules they can each enforce.