Visual Studio 2008 Managed Code Analysis

I had a quick look at the managed code analysis (FxCop) rules the other day to see what's new and what's been removed. Unfortunately, one of the analysis engines wasn't able to be "resurrected" in time for the release, so there's a few really useful rules that haven't stayed with Beta 2 the reslease of Visual Studio 2008. Fortunately, there have been some additions too. Fortunately, there is not a deficit, we're up by 12 new rules.

Following are the new rules:

DoNotRaiseExceptionsInUnexpectedLocations
NormalizeStringsToUppercase
SpecifyMarshalingForPInvokeStringArguments
SpecifyStringComparison
UseOrdinalStringComparison
AvoidUnmaintainableCode
ReviewMisleadingFieldNames
AvoidExcessiveClassCoupling
IdentifiersShouldBeCasedCorrectly
IdentifiersShouldBeSpelledCorrectly
IdentifiersShouldDifferByMoreThanCase
IdentifiersShouldNotContainTypeNames
OnlyFlagsEnumsShouldHavePluralNames
ResourceStringCompoundWordsShouldBeCasedCorrectly
ResourceStringsShouldBeSpelledCorrectly
MarkAssembliesWithNeutralResourcesLanguage
RemoveEmptyFinalizers
CatchNonClsCompliantExceptionsInGeneralHandlers
TestForNaNCorrectly
AttributeStringLiteralsShouldParseCorrectly
SecurityTransparentAssembliesShouldNotContainSecurityCriticalCode
SecurityTransparentCodeShouldNotAssert
SecurityTransparentCodeShouldNotReferenceNonpublicSecurityCriticalCode
CatchNonClsCompliantExceptionsInGeneralHandlers

And following are the rules that were removed:

ProvideCorrectArgumentsToFormattingMethods
DisposeMethodsShouldCallBaseClassDispose
DoNotCallPropertiesThatCloneValuesInLoops
DoNotDisposeObjectsMultipleTimes
SpecifyMarshalingForPInvokeStringArguments
DoNotPassLiteralsAsLocalizedParameters
LongAcronymsShouldBePascalCased
ShortAcronymsShouldBeUppercase
AvoidUnnecessaryStringCreation
DoNotConcatenateStringsInsideLoops
SecureGetObjectDataOverrides
AssembliesShouldDeclareMinimumSecurity