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Dennis Forbes is a Toronto-based software architect. While focused primarily on the .NET and SQL Server worlds, Dennis frequently ventures outside of this comfort zone into game development, Linux development, and image processing. He has been published in several industry magazines, has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and has been interviewed by NPR.

He is a vice president and lead software architect at an innovative New York City hedge fund back-office services firm.

Dennis has been working on solutions for the financial, telecommunications, and power generation markets for over 13 years.


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Wednesday, September 07 2005

If you do .NET development, you owe it to yourself to use FxCop. This tool evaluates your assemblies (it analyzes the IL assembly, rather than the sourcecode itself), and flags possible deviations from best practices with varying severity levels. You can also easily create your own modules for FxCop, imposing team or organizational specific guidelines. All in all it's a very useful tool, and it's free. Even if you don't plan on following all of the framework guidelines, it's still interesting in that it points out nuances that you probably didn't know about.

This tool has been out for quite a long time, but I'm still amazed how many .NET developers have never heard of it, let alone used it, so I thought I'd drop some props for it.

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