Third Shelf

On solutions with many projects (typically, more than 20), it is a rather tedious task to update and keep all the Static Code Analysis settings in Visual Studio the same across all projects. Recently, I found myself faced with the same problem and set out hunting once more.

This time Daniel Fisher (lennybacon) wrote a small macro that can be updated to enable or disable specific rules for Static Code Analysis. This macro is compatible with Visual Studio 2008.

I replicated the macro here for your ease:

Imports System
Imports System.Diagnostics
Imports System.Text
Imports System.Windows.Forms
Imports EnvDTE
Imports EnvDTE80

Public Module CodeAnalysis
  Public Sub EnableFxCop()
    Dim objProj As Object()
    Dim proj As Project

    For i As Integer = 1 To DTE.Solution.Projects.Count
      proj = DTE.Solution.Projects.Item(i)
      EnableFxCop(proj)
    Next
  End Sub

  Private Sub EnableFxCop(ByVal project As Project)
    If project.Kind = "{66A26720-8FB5-11D2-AA7E-00C04F688DDE}" Then
      'Filter Project Folders
      For Each subProject As ProjectItem In project.ProjectItems
        EnableFxCop(subProject.SubProject)
      Next
    Else
      project.ConfigurationManager.ActiveConfiguration.Properties.Item( _
        "RunCodeAnalysis").Value = "True"

      project.ConfigurationManager.ActiveConfiguration.Properties.Item( _
        "CodeAnalysisRules").Value = String.Concat( _
        "-Microsoft.Design#CA2210;", _
        "-Microsoft.Design#CA1020;", _
        "-Microsoft.Naming#CA1705;", _
        "-Microsoft.Naming#CA1709")

      project.Save()
    End If
  End Sub
End Module