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VS2005 at work, VS2005 Express at home. Wanted a ...

2008-11-09T15:01:31.407-08:00

VS2005 at work, VS2005 Express at home. Wanted a tool that would work in both environments and found out StyleCop isn't it. Guess I'll look to non-MS for the truly useful tools (yet again).

Looks like that freetodev post is back up again......

2008-07-21T03:15:26.492-07:00

Looks like that freetodev post is back up again...

I am issuing a Vote Of No Confidence on Microsoft ...

2008-07-07T02:58:02.398-07:00

I am issuing a Vote Of No Confidence on Microsoft Source Analyzer/StyleCop.

Somehow I remembered about Testdriven .NET issue o...

2008-07-04T04:11:57.940-07:00

Somehow I remembered about Testdriven .NET issue on Visual Studio Express...

Bill! LOL But you VB guys get that cool XML in co...

2008-07-03T18:44:28.722-07:00

Bill! LOL But you VB guys get that cool XML in code thing I really like. :D

Seriously, though, you can use the tool with VB if you write your own rules. Or maybe that next release Jason mentioned will have VB rules.

I hope they shut it down tighter than a drum. Now ...

2008-07-03T17:44:14.705-07:00

I hope they shut it down tighter than a drum. Now maybe C# developers can feel left out like VB developers.

Hi Jason, Thanks for taking the time to comment. ...

2008-07-03T16:37:37.557-07:00

Hi Jason,

Thanks for taking the time to comment. I think you guys have every right to be very proud of the tool and I recommend it to everyone.

What I'm confused about, and I think a lot of the others talking about this, too, is that as early as this morning, there're posts and blogs where extensions have been pulled, purportedly at Microsoft's request, due to licensing issues.

Now, don't get me wrong, it's your product, your license, your rules ... if you guys ask me to pull my custom rules pages, I will.

But we're just all saying we don't like it much and there must be a better solution.

As the lead developer on the StyleCop project, I w...

2008-07-03T13:09:16.140-07:00

As the lead developer on the StyleCop project, I would like to let you all know personally how exciting it has been to see the level of enthusiasm in the community around this tool. We're very proud of it and we're glad that some of you are getting some good use out of it.

After the tool was initially released, there was some confusion about the license agreement. The tool ships with its own license, and the MSDN Code Gallery site also displayed its own, different license. This issue has been resolved, but it led to some early confusion, and some posts\threads may have gotten deleted as a result of this.

We've been getting some great feedback and ideas from the community, and we'll soon be releasing a new version of StyleCop which we hope you'll enjoy.

Thank you!

I just wanted to add my name to the list of confus...

2008-07-03T12:43:17.871-07:00

I just wanted to add my name to the list of confused/displeased developers out there. This makes no sense at all.

I don't think it's the bureaucracy in this case; I...

2008-07-03T11:35:20.956-07:00

I don't think it's the bureaucracy in this case; I think it's the project team.

And I can see their point, to a certain extent; after all, this project is their baby and all of a sudden these strangers are poking and prodding and violating it.

Maybe they're right and I should have to register as a reflection-offender and stay a hundred yards away from all compiled code ...

On the other hand, they're not charging for the product, so there's no potential revenue loss. And damn it's some nice code -- very clean design and easy to understand -- they should be proud of it.

Well yeah. Pretty much every MS product says you c...

2008-07-03T11:18:34.578-07:00

Well yeah. Pretty much every MS product says you can't decompile it. For example it's REALLY hard to figure out what Sharepoint is doing in a lot of cases. It would be nice if you could use reflector to look at that. I've seen a lot of blogs where people say they're doing that, but I suspect Microsoft hasn't had the chance to take their blog posts down yet. Yeah, it's pretty stupid.

I will ask around and see what's up.

2008-07-03T11:04:27.671-07:00

I will ask around and see what's up.

Now that's some bad publicity. Punishing most inte...

2008-07-03T10:47:58.614-07:00

Now that's some bad publicity.

Punishing most interested and motivated developers is not what a developer-target company should do ever. I hope some people will get some managerial karma decrease.

This is incredibly disappointing. Microsoft has be...

2008-07-03T09:36:40.203-07:00

This is incredibly disappointing. Microsoft has been making great strides over the past couple years to really open up and make the right decisions to endear themselves to the community, but from time to time the 12 layers of management and bureaucracy rear their ugly heads and we end up with actions like this.