Alternative to StyleCop for Visual Studio? [closed]

Question

I like StyleCop's static code analysis and rules enforcement. However, it is severely lacking in several key departments.

• Adding new rules isn't officially supported and from what I hear pretty difficult.
• Automatic "fixing" of trivial rules violations would be nice! Perhaps not with variable naming but with method ordering (static, etc) this would be a huge time saver.
• Microsofts "one-size-fits-all" approach to StyleCop is kind of restrictive. I would like to have a custom set of rules for our in-house standards.

Is there such a commercial product out there?

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Answer 1

Adding rules is, or is going to be, officially supported:

As promised, we will also be releasing SDK documentation for StyleCop explaining how to author custom rules and how to integrate the tool into custom build environments. The SDK documentation is currently under final review and we hope to release it very soon. -- JasonAll

In terms of our "in-house" style, I got pretty close by disabling a handful of StyleCop rules:

• File Headers (SA1633-SA-1640)
• Code ordering (SA1200-SA1202)
• Requiring "this" (SA1101)

You can do this globally by modifying the Settings.StyleCop file in the installation directory, though I've taken the approach of putting one at the root of our source tree in each project.

The end effect is much what we want. There are a handful of "in-house" choices that would be nice to flag, but even without them StyleCop is delivering a lot of value for us.

Answer 2

StyleCop for ReSharper could help (you'd need to purchase ReSharper, but the plug-in is free):

StyleCop for ReSharper is now feature complete in that is has reached feature parity with StyleCop 4.3.

There are 148 StyleCop rules.

• 38 of these must be fixed manually (normally because you have to type descriptive text or rename variables).
• Of the remaining 110 rules 58 are fixed by R# Code Cleanup (silent mode).
• Of the 52 now remaining we have Code Cleanup rules that fix all of them automatically.

We also provide 106 Quick Fixes that provide in place context menu fixes for violations for the 110 rules that can be fixed automatically

We also ship a "StyleCop friendly ReSharper Code Style Sharing Settings file" which configures ReSharper to automatically format code in a StyleCop friendly manner.