Clean Code on Marko Apfel

Simian counts errors in Jenkins dashboard but shows in details “No violation found”

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:46:00 +0100

Problem

Jenkins dashboard shows following simian analysis:

But after clicking one item I get:

@Microsoft: please provide universal and professional concepts

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 11:35:00 +0100

Why such constructs are included in the csproj-Files?

<CodeAnalysisRuleSetDirectories>;c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Team Tools\Static Analysis Tools\\Rule Sets</CodeAnalysisRuleSetDirectories>

<CodeAnalysisRuleDirectories>;c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Team Tools\Static Analysis Tools\FxCop\\Rules</CodeAnalysisRuleDirectories>

So it every projects needs some manual steps to clean the project file so the solution could be build on a continuous integration server. That annoying!

Setup license stuff for PostSharp 2.1

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:03:00 +0100

Problem

Normally PostSharp runs fine on unattended build servers. So on our global Jenkins continuous integration server PostSharp does the job.

But on my local TeamCity continuous integration server I got the following error:

Running StyleCop without an installation to empower continuous integration

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:32:00 +0100

Problem

A continuous integration server should only have a minimal toolset installed. This ensures that no unwanted libraries could affect the build and other steps.

Clearly that with this slogan also StyleCop should not be installed to the CI server. But we wanna have this analysis as an part of the whole build.

Using NuGet in a MSBuild-target to have the packages at the last stand

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:15:00 +0200

Motivation

Encouraged from the article “Using NuGet without committing packages to source control” I decided to wrap the NuGet-call in a MSBuild target instead of using a pre-build event.

Because we also trigger FxCop and StyleCop via targets this fits better in our project management.

Let ReSharper and xUnit work together

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 13:41:00 +0200

Getting the ressources

First at all download

xUnit http://xunit.codeplex.com/releases/
xUnit Contrib ReSharper http://xunitcontrib.codeplex.com/releases/ This gives you a bridge between ReSharper functionality and your XUnit coding.

Installation und Configuration

Unzip both archives.

xUnit part

Configure the code to use xUnit

Normally I prefer a single checkout point for my developing solution – this whole bundle I name DevTree. One of the top folders in the hierarchy of this DevTree is a lib-Folder. Beneath this folder all of the 3rd party libs which I use in my solution are located – all of them in an own folder. So I copy xunit.dll to a folder <DevTree-TopPoint>\lib\xUnit.