StyleCop is an

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tool from

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that checks C# code for conformance to StyleCop's recommended coding styles and a subset of Microsoft's .NET Framework Design Guidelines. StyleCop analyses the

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, allowing it to enforce a different set of rules from

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(which, instead of source code, checks .NET

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assemblies). The rules are classified into the following categories: *Documentation *Layout *Maintainability *Naming *Ordering *Readability *Spacing StyleCop includes both

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and command-line versions of the tool. It is possible to add new rules to be applied. StyleCop was re-released as an open-source project in April 2010 on

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. StyleCop 4.7.55 (November 10, 2016) is compatible with Visual Studio 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2015. (Microsoft Visual Studio Extension) StyleCop began a move to

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in December 2014, and the last change applied to the CodePlex edition was November 11, 2016. StyleCop 5.0.6329.1 (April 30, 2017) works with Visual Studio 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2017. (Windows Installer) Development is stopping. A named successor is StyleCopAnalyzers, for Visual Studio 2015 and later.https://github.com/StyleCop/StyleCop#considerations StyleCop repository on GitHub

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Legacy Microsoft-hosted StyleCop blog (2010)
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