FxCop Rules Deployment

Hi,

We have written some FxCop rules for doing standards check as per our company policy. Can somebody help me with the following details like

What are all the possible deployment options as the rules will have to be installed on all the client machines

Which is the best option and why

I would really appreciate your help in this regard

Thanks and Regards

Prash

tim00
Hi Jeffrey,

Thanks for the reply. But if we have to deploy this to an org of 50K +, I dont think this will be the best option as there will be 100s of project which will be wanting to use. May be I was not clear in my question. I meant org wide deployment for all the projects which use MS technologies. I was looking for options for this and best option of that lot

Thanks and Regards

Prash
MSVS Beta user
Hi Prash,

internally some teams check in their custom rules as binaries with the source, so that everybody has the latest version when they sync their source control system.

Regards,

Jeffrey
sjcrichton
Hi,

Deployment is for the Managed Code Analysis available with Visual Studio.

Thanks and Regards

PrashG
r1zky

Prash,

To what version of FxCop do you want to deploy to FxCop standalone or the Managed Code Analysis available with Visual Studio
Andrej Ruckij

I think Jeff's answer still stands. If you are asking 50k users to run FxCop, aren't they involved in some sort of development process Doesn't your company have a mechanism for distributing tools and source code across all clients

Deploying an FxCop binary is no different than pushing any other binary onto a client, given your company's processes and infrastructure. That might be a file control system, such as visual source safe, or it might be something like SMS.

In any case, custom rule assemblies will be treated as any other binary that needs to be pushed on the system.
FxCop Rules Deployment