How to integrate FxCop and VS 2008?

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I know that in VS Team System I can use Code Analysis but I\'m using V

Answer 1

I run a command very similar Vadim's as a Post-Build event for the project. That way, I get the FxCop errors as soon as I recompile. But our commands are pretty much the same; nice to know at least two people in the world reached the same conclusion!

The errors do show up in Visual Studo's Error List pane.

"%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft FxCop 1.36\FxCopCmd.exe"
/file:"$(TargetPath)" 
/console
/dictionary:"$(SolutionDir)Res\FxCop\CustomDictionary.xml"
/searchgac 
/ignoregeneratedcode

(You can omit the /dictionary argument; it just points to one of my custom dictionary files since FxCop flags a few variable names as Hungarian notation when they aren't. I also line-wrapped the command for readability.)

It does make the build a little longer, but it's nice to see the errors right away and to tailor the command settings per project. Good luck!