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January Orcas CTP Released!

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Update: A Virtual PC image is also available. 

We've just released the Visual Studio 'Orcas' - January CTP. This is the first of the side-by-side installable CTPs, however, before installing, please read the Release Notes and do not install this on a production machine as this will likely break Visual Studio 2005 when uninstalled.

Besides the new features mentioned previously for Code Analysis, you will also see the following new analysis in this CTP:

New Rules:
Reliability\AvoidCallingProblematicMethods
Globalization\SpecifyStringComparision
Globalization\NormalizeStringsToUppercase
Globalization\UseOrdinalStringComparion
Design\DoNotRaiseExceptionsInUnexpectedLocations
Usage\DoNotRaiseExceptionsInExceptionClauses

Changes to Existing Rules:
IdentifiersShouldHaveCorrectPrefix
 - Now fires on generic type parameters that do not begin with 'T'

CompoundWordsShouldBeCasedCorrectly
IdentifiersShouldBeCasedCorrectly 
UsePreferredTerms
ShortAcronymsShouldBeUppercase
LongAcronymsShouldBePascalCased
IdentifiersShouldNotContainUnderscores 
 - Now fire on assemblies (with externally visible types) and generic type parameters

You will also see a string of better analysis and less noise in existing rules when compared to both Visual Studio 2005 and FxCop 1.35.

Download it today and tell us what you think!

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  • Anonymous
    January 12, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    January 12, 2007
    Don, We have actually also released a VPC image of the January CTP and I've updated the post to reflect that. Regards David

  • Anonymous
    January 12, 2007
    Hi David- Thanks for the quick (and great) response. Downloading now... -Don

  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2007
    DoNotRaiseExceptionsInUnexpectedLocations DoNotRaiseExceptionsInExceptionClauses Don't these violate FxCop Rule Naming Rule #17: "Exceptions are thrown, not raised"?

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    May 06, 2007
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    November 19, 2007
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    November 19, 2007
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    March 09, 2008
    Como muchos ya sabréis hace poco Microsoft lanzó al mercado Visual Studio 2008. Si estáis interesados

  • Anonymous
    March 09, 2008
    Como muchos ya sabréis hace poco Microsoft lanzó al mercado Visual Studio 2008. Si estáis interesados