I'm going to the Microsoft ALM Summit in Redmond [http://www.alm-summit.com/] Yay! I just confirmed my flight and hotel reservations for the Microsoft ALM Summit in Redmond. I'll be coming a little early (flying in on November 11), so if anyone wants to meet up before the main event, drop me a note :).
Static Analysis FxCopContrib project and DoNotIgnoreResultOfImmutableMethods custom rule Already a month ago I needed a place to store the code of the FxCop rules I was working on. I ended up at Codeplex, not only because they offer native TFS integration, but also because I hope others will join in on the effort. As of this moment, the
Static Analysis Have your Custom CodeAnalysis rule integrate properly with Visual Studio After porting the MSOCAF rules to FxCop 10, I noticed that you can't use the "Suppress in Source" option. Only the option "Suppress in Project suppression file" is available. Another problem with the global suppression is that it isn't scoped to a
Visual Studio 2010 Find the ID and GUID of any menu item in Visual Studio When writing an extension to Visual Studio (or in my case to Team Explorer), you need to know the ID and GUID for context menus, tree's, etc. There is a setting in Visual Studio, which you can activate to get access to a debug window which contains exactly
Team Foundation Server Storing your TFS passwords for TFS servers in another domain Working for a lot of different customers from my development laptop I've always wanted that little "Store my password" checkbox on the TFS login box, but somehow it's never there when you need it the most. Turns out you can use the Windows Credentials
Maintainability Maintainable Regular Expressions I've seen a lot of regular expressions in my career. Some genius, others monstrous, some very subtle and some really blunt. The person who wrote the expression usually did his best to make the expression work and finally succeeded in making his expression pass all the test cases
Static Analysis MSOCAF rules As you might have read previously, I've been trying to incorporate MSOCAF directly in both Visual Studio 2010 and Team Build. The simplest solution would be to code up an msbuild task and put those in a target and reference that target in all project files. I know
Static Analysis Run MSOCAF in Visual Studio and on the build server UPDATE (1st of November 2011): I've since uploaded the re-targetted MSOCAF rules to CodePlex [http://fxcopcontrib.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/3099]and I've applied a few fixes to prevent CodeAnalysis from crashing under certain conditions [https://jessehouwing.net/visual-studio-code-analaysis-msocaf-rules]. They're not part of
