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StyleCop: A Detailed Guide to Starting and Using It

April 10, 2018Peter Morlion32

Content updated: 4/23/2019.

Put two developers together and they’re bound to have a discussion about coding style. No two developers write code in the exact same way.

More often than not, one isn’t better than the other and it’s just a matter of taste. In a team or in a single project, it’s more important to be consistent than it is to choose the right style.

Agreeing on a style can be hard enough, but enforcing it shouldn’t be something you do manually. It will be tedious and error-prone.

StyleCop Under Microscope

StyleCop is a tool that can automate this. Let’s have a look at how to set it up and what it brings to the table.? This post will walk you through the following:

What Stylecop is.
How to install and run it.
Configuration.
Integration into your build.
Defining rule excpetions
Analyzing all projects
Using the command line

So, read on if you want to learn everything there is to know about Stylecop.
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Retiring PrettyCode.Print and StudioTools; CodeSpell to be merged into GhostDoc Pro

August 25, 2011Serge BaranovskyNo Comments

PrettyCode.Print and StudioTools no longer fit our strategic corporate direction to deliver best code quality tools on the market.?

Discontinuing these products enables us to reinvest the efforts into our flagship products and offer even better code quality tools. We will be releasing new greatly enhanced versions of our existing products as well as new products over the next six months. For a sneak peek of what?s coming please see our Product Feedback board.

PrettyCode.Print
PrettyCode.Print for VB6/VBA and PrettyCode.Print for .NET will no longer be further developed. Both products will be converted into a free download in their current state. While we will continue to offer technical support for PrettyCode.Print products for six more month from now, there will be no enhancements, improvements nor bug fixes for these two products.? You can download PrettyCode.Print for VB6/VBA and PrettyCode.Print for .NET in the Community Downloads section.

CodeIt.Once
CodeIt.Once is retired and no longer available for download. We encourage you to learn about our CodeIt.Right product which offers automated refactorings and proactively finds the opportunities for refactoring and improving your code.

StudioTools
StudioTools is retired and will no longer be offered for download or supported.

CodeSpell
CodeSpell will not be available for purchase for approximately 6 months. The CodeSpell engine is being rewritten to allow greater flexibility and better features, after which, the code spelling feature will be offered as part of our GhostDoc Pro product. All customers that purchased CodeSpell from SubMain (after March 9th, 2010) will be offered, at no charge, the equivalent number of licenses for GhostDoc Pro once the code spelling feature is released.

We sincerely appreciate your continued support and look forward to working with you in the future.

SubMain acquires Exact Magic’s TestMatrix, CodeSpell and StudioTools

March 9, 2010Serge BaranovskyNo Comments

As announced earlier today we just closed the acquisition of the popular unit testing and code coverage product TestMatrix, as well as CodeSpell and StudioTools. We, SubMain, will continue to maintain and enhance these products.

TestMatrix adds support for unit testing, code coverage analysis, and test profiling to Visual Studio, seamlessly incorporating these critical development practices directly into the coding process itself; CodeSpell adds real-time, intelligent detection and correction of misspellings to Visual Studio; and StudioTools is a rich collection of Visual Studio enhancements.

We are also announcing today the availability of the new version for all three products – TestMatrix, CodeSpell and StudioTools – v2.1.10055 which adds support for Visual Studio 2010 RC.

We are very excited about taking over the future of such great products! TestMatrix complements CodeIt.Right into a Code Quality Suite which will be be complete with the addition of the new product codenamed Project Anelare in the following months.

For more on the agreement, please see the press release.