Hi,
I need a sample XML report generated by FxCop for making a presentation. Most of the sites I've seen just gave me a UI screen shot of the report but not an XML downloadable report. If somebody can give me a link to a downloadable XML report generated by FxCop, it would be helpful.
Thanks,
Mayank.
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Paste this into a text file and rename it to <someReport>.xml
<-------------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="c:\program files\microsoft fxcop 1.35\Xml\FxCopReport.Xsl"?
<FxCopReport Version="1.35">
<Targets>
<Target Name="$(ProjectDir)/../My Documents/Visual Studio Projects/WebServiceProxy/b
<Modules>
<Module Name="webserviceproxy.dll"
<Namespaces>
<Namespace Name="CompanyName.Workflow
<Types>
<Type Name="WebServiceProxy" Kind="Class" Accessibility="Public" ExternallyVisible="True">
<Members>
<Member Name=".ctor(System.String)
<Messages>
<Message TypeName="DoNotInitializeU
<Issue Certainty="90" Level="Warning" Path="c:\documents and settings\UserName\my documents\visual studio projects\webserviceproxy\c
</Message>
<Message Id="System.ArgumentExcepti
<Issue Certainty="95" Level="Error" Path="c:\documents and settings\UserName\my documents\visual studio projects\webserviceproxy\c
</Message>
</Messages>
</Member>
<Member Name="CallRemoteService(Sy
<Messages>
<Message Id="stack0" TypeName="AvoidUnnecessary
<Issue Name="UseStringCompareLoca
</Message>
<Message Id="System.ArgumentExcepti
<Issue Certainty="95" Level="Error" Path="c:\documents and settings\UserName\my documents\visual studio projects\webserviceproxy\c
</Message>
<Message Id="System.ArgumentNullExc
<Issue Certainty="95" Level="Error" Path="c:\documents and settings\UserName\my documents\visual studio projects\webserviceproxy\c
</Message>
<Message Id="System.String.ToUpper"
<Issue Certainty="95" Level="Error" Path="c:\documents and settings\UserName\my documents\visual studio projects\webserviceproxy\c
</Message>
</Messages>
</Member>
<Member Name="CallRemoteService(Sy
<Messages>
<Message Id="System.ArgumentNullExc
<Issue Certainty="95" Level="Error" Path="c:\documents and settings\UserName\my documents\visual studio projects\webserviceproxy\c
</Message>
<Message Id="0#" TypeName="IdentifiersShoul
<Issue Name="Parameter" Certainty="95" Level="Error" Path="c:\documents and settings\UserName\my documents\visual studio projects\webserviceproxy\c
</Message>
<Message TypeName="InstantiateArgum
<Issue Name="TwoArgumentsFirstSho
</Message>
<Message Id="0#" TypeName="LongAcronymsShou
<Issue Name="Parameter" Certainty="85" Level="Error" Path="c:\documents and settings\UserName\my documents\visual studio projects\webserviceproxy\c
</Message>
</Messages>
</Member>
<Member Name="Finalize():System.Vo
<Messages>
<Message TypeName="RemoveEmptyFinal
<Issue Certainty="75" Level="Warning" Path="c:\documents and settings\UserName\my documents\visual studio projects\webserviceproxy\c
</Message>
</Messages>
</Member>
<Member Name="GetWebServiceParamet
<Messages>
<Message TypeName="MarkMembersAsSta
<Issue Certainty="95" Level="Warning" Path="c:\documents and settings\UserName\my documents\visual studio projects\webserviceproxy\c
</Message>
</Messages>
</Member>
<Member Name="ProxyToRemoteService
<Messages>
<Message Id="System.String.Format(S
<Issue Certainty="95" Level="Error" Path="c:\documents and settings\UserName\my documents\visual studio projects\webserviceproxy\c
</Message>
</Messages>
</Member>
</Members>
</Type>
</Types>
</Namespace>
</Namespaces>
</Module>
</Modules>
</Target>
</Targets>
<Rules>
<Rule TypeName="AvoidUnnecessary
<Name>Avoid unnecessary string creation</Name>
<Description>Avoid creating strings unnecessarily. When converting strings to upper or lowercase, cache the result when necessary rather than duplicating a previous string creation. Prefer String.Compare over converting strings to upper or lowercase when performing case-insensitive comparisons. Do not create strings that are not subsequently assigned to variables.</Description>
<Resolution Name="UseStringCompareLoca
<Owner />
<Url>http://www.gotdotnet.
<Email>[none]</Email>
<MessageLevel Certainty="90">Warning</Me
<File Name="PerformanceRules.dll
</Rule>
<Rule TypeName="DoNotInitializeU
<Name>Do not initialize unnecessarily</Name>
<Description>Do not make initializations that have already been done by the runtime.</Description>
<Resolution Name="Default">{0} initializes field {1} of type {2} to {3}. Remove this initialization as it will be done automatically by the runtime.</Resolution>
<Owner />
<Url>http://www.gotdotnet.
<Email>[none]</Email>
<MessageLevel Certainty="90">Warning</Me
<File Name="PerformanceRules.dll
</Rule>
<Rule TypeName="DoNotPassLiteral
<Name>Do not pass literals as localized parameters</Name>
<Description>String literals that are embedded in source code are difficult to localize. Avoid passing string literals as arguments in circumstances where a localized string is generally expected. Most localized applications, for example, should localize string arguments that are passed to exception constructors. When creating an Exception instance, therefore, a string argument retrieved from a string table is more appropriate than a string literal.</Description>
<Resolution Name="Default">{0} passes a literal as parameter {1} of a call to {2}. Retrieve the following string argument from a resource table instead: '{3}'</Resolution>
<Owner />
<Url>http://www.gotdotnet.
<Email>[none]</Email>
<MessageLevel Certainty="95">Error</Mess
<File Name="GlobalizationRules.d
</Rule>
<Rule TypeName="IdentifiersShoul
<Name>Identifiers should be cased correctly</Name>
<Description>Type, namespace, and member identifiers are pascal-cased. Parameter identifiers are camel-cased. The pascal-casing convention capitalizes the first letter of each word, as in BackColor. The camel-casing convention formats the first letter of the first word in lowercase and capitalizes the first letter of all subsequent words, as in backgroundColor.</Descript
<Resolution Name="Parameter">Correct the casing of parameter name '{0}'.</Resolution>
<Owner />
<Url>http://www.gotdotnet.
<Email>[none]</Email>
<MessageLevel Certainty="95">Error</Mess
<File Name="NamingRules.dll" Version="1.35.0.0" />
</Rule>
<Rule TypeName="InstantiateArgum
<Name>Instantiate argument exceptions correctly</Name>
<Description>String arguments passed to constructors of ArgumentException and its derived types should be correct. Types derived from ArgumentException have inconsistent constructor overloads with respect to the message and paramName parameters as compared to ArgumentException.</Descri
<Resolution Name="TwoArgumentsFirstSho
<Owner />
<Url>http://www.gotdotnet.
<Email>[none]</Email>
<MessageLevel Certainty="95">CriticalErr
<File Name="UsageRules.dll" Version="1.35.0.0" />
</Rule>
<Rule TypeName="LongAcronymsShou
<Name>Long acronyms should be pascal-cased</Name>
<Description>Acronyms of three or more letters should be Pascal-cased. For example, use XmlSpace rather than XMLSpace. A violation of this rule might be required for compatibility with existing, non-managed symbol schemes. In general, however, these symbols should not be visible outside the assembly that uses them.</Description>
<Resolution Name="Parameter">Correct the capitalization of parameter name '{0}'.</Resolution>
<Owner />
<Url>http://www.gotdotnet.
<Email>[none]</Email>
<MessageLevel Certainty="85">Error</Mess
<File Name="NamingRules.dll" Version="1.35.0.0" />
</Rule>
<Rule TypeName="MarkMembersAsSta
<Name>Mark members as static</Name>
<Description>Methods which do not access instance data or call instance methods can be marked as static (Shared in VB). After doing so, the compiler will emit non-virtual call sites to these members which will prevent a check at runtime for each call that insures the current object pointer is non-null. This can result in a measurable performance gain for performance-sensitive code. In some cases, the failure to access the current object instance represents a correctness issue.</Description>
<Resolution Name="Default">The 'this' parameter (or 'Me' in VB) of {0} is never used. Mark the member as static (or Shared in VB) or use 'this'/'Me' in the method body or at least one property accessor, if appropriate.</Resolution>
<Owner />
<Url>http://www.gotdotnet.
<Email>[none]</Email>
<MessageLevel Certainty="95">Warning</Me
<File Name="PerformanceRules.dll
</Rule>
<Rule TypeName="RemoveEmptyFinal
<Name>Remove empty finalizers</Name>
<Description>Finalizers should be avoided where possible, to avoid the additional performance overhead involved in tracking object lifetime.</Description>
<Resolution Name="Default">{0} implements a finalizer that only calls conditionally emitted methods or the base type finalizer. Remove the finalizer or insure that it is only conditionally compiled into the assembly. If this violation occurs against a finalizer that is entirely wrapped in a conditionally-emitted block of code, suppress this message.</Resolution>
<Owner />
<Url>http://www.gotdotnet.
<Email>[none]</Email>
<MessageLevel Certainty="75">Warning</Me
<File Name="PerformanceRules.dll
</Rule>
<Rule TypeName="SpecifyCultureIn
<Name>Specify CultureInfo</Name>
<Description>If an overload exists that takes a System.Globalization.Cultu
<Resolution Name="Default">{0} makes a call to {1} that does not explicitly provide a CultureInfo. This should be replaced with a call to {2}.</Resolution>
<Owner />
<Url>http://www.gotdotnet.
<Email>[none]</Email>
<MessageLevel Certainty="95">Error</Mess
<File Name="GlobalizationRules.d
</Rule>
<Rule TypeName="SpecifyIFormatPr
<Name>Specify IFormatProvider</Name>
<Description>If an overload exists that takes an IFormatProvider argument, it should always be called in favor of an overload that does not. Some methods in the common language runtime convert a value to or from a string representation and take a string parameter that contains one or more characters, called format specifiers, which indicate how the value is to be converted. If the meaning of the format specifier varies by culture, a formatting object supplies the actual characters used in the string representation. In scenarios where sorting and comparison behavior should never change between cultures, specify CultureInfo.InvariantCultu
<Resolution Name="Default">{0} makes a call to {1} that does not explicitly provide an IFormatProvider. This should be replaced with a call to {2}.</Resolution>
<Owner />
<Url>http://www.gotdotnet.
<Email>[none]</Email>
<MessageLevel Certainty="95">Error</Mess
<File Name="GlobalizationRules.d
</Rule>
</Rules>
<Localized>
<String Key="Category">Category</S
<String Key="CollapseAll">Collapse
<String Key="CheckId">Check Id</String>
<String Key="Error">Error</String>
<String Key="Errors">error(s)</Str
<String Key="Line">Line</String>
<String Key="LocationNotStoredInPd
<String Key="Project">Project</Str
<String Key="Rule">Rule</String>
<String Key="RuleDescription">Rule
<String Key="Source">Source</Strin
<String Key="Target">Target</Strin
<String Key="Warning">Warning</Str
<String Key="Warnings">warning(s)<
<String Key="ReportTitle">Code Analysis Report</String>
</Localized>
</FxCopReport>
Also:
The second line of the report above uses an XSL file:
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="c:\program files\microsoft fxcop 1.35\Xml\FxCopReport.Xsl"?
You will need to edit this line in the XML report. Change the path to C:\temp or C:\FxCop\presentation or whatever. Below is the XSL file that is referenced by the FXCop report. All you need to do is save this info to a file called FxCopReport.Xsl and place it in the directory that you create and reference in the report itself.
FxCopReport.Xsl
<-------------------------
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.o
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/T
<xsl:template match="/FxCopReport">
<html>
<head><title>Analysis Report</title></head>
<style>
#Title {font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-weight: bold}
.ColumnHeader {font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; background-color:white; color: black}
.CriticalError {font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; color: darkred; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; }
.Error {font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; color: royalblue; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; }
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a:link { color: blue; text-decoration: none; }
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FxCop <xsl:value-of select="@Version"/> Analysis Report
</div>
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<a href="javascript:ExpandAll
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<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="Namespaces">
<hr/>
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</xsl:choose>
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by: TheLearnedOnePosted on 2007-02-09 at 07:47:03ID: 18502057
I haven't used FxCop very much, but here is a resource that might help:
FxCop, Your .NET Cop
http://aspnet.4guysfromrol
<Quote>
A Look at the Reporting Features
You can also generate reports with FxCop. Click on the menu "File | Save Report As" and provide a name and location for the report. The report is stored as an XML document which references a XSLT document - FxCopReport.xsl. If you send the report to someone by email make sure that the recipient has also FxCop installed or include also the referenced XSLT document. Opening the report with your browser uses the referenced XSLT document to render a HTML report (see below). The report allows you to drill down to all messages on the assembly level, type level and type member level.
The report, by default, only includes active messages. So, if you want to keep a historical view go to menu "Project | Options" and on the "Project Options" dialog, on the Standard tab, select the Excluded and Absent checkbox in the "Save Messages" group (for reporting). This changes the option only for the current project. Going to "Tools | Settings" menu shows the Settings dialog. On the "Project defaults" tab select the Excluded and Absent checkbox under the "Save Messages" group (for reporting). This setting takes then effect for all future FxCop projects you create. I recommend including the historical view in the generated reports because I always find it useful to be able to go back and understand what has been changed on a project over time.
</Quote>
Bob