In my first post (link) I’ve explained what StyleCop is and how you can start with your own StyleCop rules. We will now dig a little bit deeper into the jungle of StyleCop….

.NET, Software, Sourceanalysis .NET, Source Analysis, TDD, Test Driven Development

Microsoft’s StyleCop is a code style and consistency analysis tool for C#. The tool integrates into the Visual Studio IDE, or can be run on the command line. StyleCop ships with a default set of rules enforcing common style guidelines.

This article describes how to write custom StyleCop rules.

.NET, Software, Sourceanalysis

In C# dotnet the class Enum is heavily used. Some geek’s argue that the Enum’s “improve code clarity and and reduce the probability of invalid values. … Enum’s are self-documenting.

I will show you, that Enum’s are in almost any cases just evil.

You don’t believe me? Read on…

.NET, Software .NET, C#, Coding, Development, Enum

I’m currently working with Windows 7 Public Beta (Build 7000) and I’m very satisfied with it. I only had two blue screens since I have installed it 3 months ago. I would like to share some really cool features in W7 in an upcoming post and look at this video on Channel 9.

But the interesting thing from a .NET Developers perspective is the 64 Bit part of Windows 7 (that should be the same as in Windows XP 64 Bit or Windows Vista 64 Bit) which I will cover in this post.

First of all: Most of the things developing .NET are running very well. The drawbacks will be shown later…

.NET, Software, Windows 7 .NET, 64 Bit, Memory, Windows 7, x64