Using FxCop

I have downloaded the FxCop long time ago, but really didn't use it too much until recently.

I think every .Net programmer really should run it on a routine basis. It's just too important to ignore. When I firstly ran it on my utilities project, it gave me over 3400 warnings, while the compiler even didn't give me a single warning.

I am not saying all those warnings are valid. One of my text file which is embedded in the resource is a soundex index file, and it has a lot of unrecognized words in that. So, it gives a lot of errors in the Microsoft.Naming. After I remove the files , the errors dropped about half. Still, it's quite a lot.

I spent about 10 hours go through those warnings, and a lot of those warnings are valid warnings, such as IDispose are not implement correctly, explicit interface implementations should be changed to conform to the standards.

After I go through those warnings line by line, it teaches me a lot what I should code according to the standard. A lot of stuff which I normally never pay attention to actually deserve a lot of attention.

Good stuff, strongly recommended.