Using FxCop
This section contains detailed information about FxCop, the fully featured application that analyzes managed code assemblies. For a quick introduction to FxCop, see Quick Start Guide to FxCop. For information about the companion command-line tool, see Using FxCopCmd.
In This Section
- Overview of FxCop
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Provides a brief overview of FxCop.
- Performing an Analysis
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Explains how to perform an analysis, cancel an analysis, and view a summary of analysis results.
- Managing FxCop Projects
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Explains how to create, open, save, and import messages into a project, and how to set project options and application preferences.
- Managing Target Assemblies
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Explains how to add, ignore, and remove targets in a project, specify a target location using environment variables, and view target MSIL.
- Managing Rules
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Provides information about the default rule libraries loaded with a new project, explains how to add, group, ignore, and remove rules in a project, and discusses the information stored in a rule.
- Managing Messages
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Discusses the information provided by a message, and explains how to filter, view, exclude, and save messages