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FxCop Honored with Chairman's Award for Engineering Excellence

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Every year, Microsoft honors a few innovations that have furthered the state of engineering excellence at Microsoft... Some years, Bill Gates selects one of the winners to honor with the special distinction of the chairman's award.   I am told that Bill does this for truly noteworthy achievements that have tangible impacted software development in every division at Microsoft.   In fact, until this year, the only other winner of the Chairman's award was Watson.

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This year, FxCop (along with some two other static code analysts tools) were selected for this award.  This achievement is a testament to the importance of catching errors at the developers desktop before they even get into the source tree.  We know it becomes orders of magnitude more expensive to catch errors once checked in, and even harder still once they have shipped.   FxCop (and similar tools) enable developers to quickly and reliably scan their code against all known issues.  This type of checks is a  scalable and reliable way to catch whole classes of issues.  As new classes of issues are found, a new "rule" can be written and codebases across Microsoft (and the industry) can be quickly checked for that class of issue.   If you are not using a tool such as FxCop today, you should! 

 

FxCop is available standalone for anyone inside or outside of Microsoft to get as well as an integral part of Visual Studio 2005 and beyond.

 

While Krzysztof Cwalina, Michael Fanning and I were honored to accept the award and get a nice hand shake and photo will BillG, there are tons of people that made FxCop successful.   While I can't claim this is a complete list of those that played key roles, it is a good start.   Thanks for all of you that helped!

Chris Anderson
Dave Bartolomeo
Marcelo Birnbach
Andrew Brown
Kathleen Carey
Erik Christensen
Brian Crawford
Rob DeLine
Mark Dredze
Joe Duffy
Manuel Fahndrich
Stephen Fisher
Brahmnes Fung
Kit George
Natalia Glagoleva
Bret Grinslade
Brian Grunkemeyer
Nick Guerrera
Sheridan Harrison
Anders Hejlsberg
Anson Horton
Hunter Hudson
Kamran Iqbal
Duane Kanz
Ravs Kaur
David Kean
Todd King
Dave Lubash
Matt Lyons
John Mackenzie
Tom Marsh
Ivan Medvedev
Syne Mitchell
Anthony Moore
Mike Murray
Joe Rohde
Sean Sandys
Roberto Santos
Jesus Ruiz-Scougall
Amanda Silver
Anshuman Srivastava
Roman Snytsar
Lisa Supinski
Ryley Taketa
Valtcho Valtchev
Paul Vick
Jeff Van Gogh
Herman Venter
Nate Walker
Brett Wortzman
Eric Zinda

plus: Every engineer and customer who contributed thinking and feedback to the Framework Design Guidelines, provided useful feedback and bug reports to the FxCop team, or simply objected to the sanctioned casing of the term ‘Id’. Your numbers are legion.

Thank you!

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    July 05, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    July 05, 2007
    Quest'anno, FoxCop riceve il Chairman's Award for Engineering Excellence. Every year, Microsoft honors

  • Anonymous
    July 05, 2007
    Quest'anno, FoxCop riceve il Chairman's Award for Engineering Excellence. Every year, Microsoft

  • Anonymous
    July 09, 2007
    Last week, during the annual Engineering Excellence week, several Microsoft engineers and managers involved

  • Anonymous
    July 18, 2007
    Microsoft’s prestigious Engineering Excellence Chairman's Award was awarded to Mike Fanning, Krzysztof

  • Anonymous
    July 27, 2007
    Microsoft’s prestigious Engineering Excellence Chairman's Award was awarded to Mike Fanning, Krzysztof

  • Anonymous
    July 27, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    September 06, 2007
    My friend Ralf Westphal invited me at the PrioConference to talk about Code Quality. PrioConference will

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    September 11, 2007
    I've seen quite a bit of code written by others recently, for various reasons but the one thing that