My favorite coding tools

I always try to highlight the benefits of automatic coding tools to make the code better. You can improve your quality, increase your performance and boost efficiency. It’s easy, cheep and timesaving and everybody should use it. Come on guys, there are no disadvantage and don’t be shy to use them.

Here are my favorites:

Static code analysis

• Resharper – (C#/VB.NET – commerical)
• Nitriq – (.NET – free version available)
• FxCop – (.NET – free) *
• Gendarme – (Mono – free)
• CppCheck – (C/C++ – free)
• CAT .NET – (C#/VB.NET – free)

Style checker:

• StyleCop – (C# – free)

Duplicate code

• Clone Detective for Visual Studio (C# – free)
• Simian (many languages – free for personal use)

Verfication

• BinScope – (free)
• MiniFuzz – (free)

* [Update 2010-07-15]
A downloadable version of FxCop is no longer available and is now part of Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4

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