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Real World builds in .NET

By Philipp Dolder
In .NET, Clean Code, How we do
October 22, 2014
9 Min read
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How do you build your Visual Studio solution, verify your coding guidelines and execute tests? What steps do you take when adding a new project to your Visual Studio solution? Living in the past Let me summarize my past experience. I have tried several different approaches, all of them involved build scripts, and Visual Studio Project Templates or manual editing of *.csproj files. I don’t like any of the approaches. Why? I will show you some drawbacks of this kind of build definitions. Build...

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Using VS2010 integrated fxcop in continuous integration

By Daniel Marbach
In .NET, Software
April 29, 2011
3 Min read
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In our projects we heavily rely on the Microsoft FxCop engine. FxCop prevents us from making stupid programming mistakes like forgetting to dispose a disposable object etc. For a long time we used the FxCop engine 10.0 which has a command line integration for continuous integration environments. Lately we discovered that the VS2010 integrated FxCop has a much stronger analysis engine and more rule sets which could improve our code base even further. But how do you get the VS2010 integrated...

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MsBuild and document include tags => Annoying bug

By Daniel Marbach
In .NET
February 2, 2011
2 Min read
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I was developing a large wrapper library for some classes from System.IO. I wanted to use the original documentation from mscorlib for my wrapper classes because the methods and properties only wrap the underlying components from System.IO. This is easily possible with the document include tag.
But there is a bug in the latest msbuild version which can drive you nuts if you don’t know what to look for.

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