FxCop Security rules : A nice to have feature on top of O2 platform
While we have seen the effect of static analysis at run time in the community, which was first described with a PoC using Microsoft’s static analysis tool CAT.NET and OWASP O2 Platform on top o Visual Studio .Net, we strongly believe on the value added of using O2 platform as a part of our development work.
In this same way, a really nice to have feature would be an integration with FxCop . Namely, FxCop analyzes managed code and reports information about those assemblies. It analyzes several areas including : COM, Design, Globalization, Naming, Performance, Security and Usage.
The latest version of FxCop was included as a part of the Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4
Here you have some useful links with all the information about this tool:
- For downloading it:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/codeanalysis/archive/2010/07/26/fxcop-10-0-is-available.aspx
- The ISO files can also be downloaded from the below link:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8442
- FxCop ASP.NET Security Rules : This is a really interesting project hosted at CodePlex and it offers a set of rules for ASP.NET applications:
http://fxcopaspnetsecurity.codeplex.com/
It would be great to have those security rules available on O2 Platform and why not via real-time analysis
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