StyleCop is an open-source static code analysis tool from Microsoft 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 source code, allowing it to enforce a different set of rules from FxCop (which, instead of source code, checks .NET managed code assemblies). The rules are classified into the following categories: Documentation Layout Maintainability Naming Ordering Readability Spacing

StyleCop includes both GUI and command-line versions of the tool. It is possible to add new rules to be applied.

StyleCop was originally developed by Jason Allor as a Microsoft internal tool, and was released externally as an open-source project in April 2010 on CodePlex.

StyleCop 4.7.55 (November 10, 2016) is compatible with Visual Studio 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2015.https://stylecop.codeplex.com/ StyleCop (old CodePlex site) (Microsoft Visual Studio Extension)

StyleCop began a move to GitHub in December 2014,https://api.github.com/repos/StyleCop/StyleCop GitHub API response for StyleCop repository and the last change applied to the CodePlex edition was November 11, 2016.https://web.archive.org/web/20171226050423/http://stylecop.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets archive.org retrieval of StyleCop on CodePlex source history

StyleCop 5.0.6329.1 (April 30, 2017) works with Visual Studio 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2017.https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ChrisDahlberg.StyleCop StyleCop - Visual Studio Marketplace (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

See also

FxCop List of tools for static code analysis

References

External links

Legacy Microsoft-hosted StyleCop blog (2010)