StyleCop Updates and Run StyleCop as part of your Team Build


Version 4.3.1 contains the following fixes and updates over 4.3.0:

  • Ability to use <include> tags within Xml documentation headers
  • Fixes crash and instability on Web projects
  • Violations can appear within generated code regions
  • Setup slowness when registering with VS2008
  • Partial methods not handled correctly
  • Documentation rules should understand <include> element
  • Require get accessor before set accessor
  • When documenting a generic class, only allows <see cref="MyClass"/> and not <see cref="MyClass`1"/>
  • Analysis of files in websites crashes Visual studio 2005 and 2008
  • SA1623 and SA1624 warnings appears in wrong situations
  • ‘using’ statement does not require curly brackets
  • Class without explicit access modifier marked as "public" instead of "internal"
  • False warning: SA1119: The line contains unnecessary parenthesis
  • Ignore .generated.cs files
  • Style Cop Crashes With A Blank Definition File
  • SA1101 isn’t raised in method calls when the return value of the method is used.
  • VS crashed for webservices.
  • False syntax error with a nullable generic type reference.
  • LINQ operator "let" cause SA0101 when used with "condition ? true : false" syntax
  • False syntax error with a defaulted array

You can download the new version of StyleCop hereNOTE: you must uninstall the old version to install this one.  If you want to integrate StyleCop with MSBuild go and have a look at this blog posting.

If you are interested in getting StyleCop to work with Team Build, I suggest you checkout this blog posting by Richard Fennel.

About Wes MacDonald

Wes MacDonald is a DevOps Consultant for LIKE 10 INC., a DevOps consulting firm providing premium support, guidance and services for Azure, Microsoft 365 and Azure DevOps.

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