What static analysis tools are available for C#? [closed]

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Code violation detection Tools:

  • FxCop, excellent tool by Microsoft. Check compliance with .NET framework guidelines.

    Edit October 2010: No longer available as a standalone download. It is now included in the Windows SDK and after installation can be found in Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\ [v7.1] \Bin\FXCop\FxCopSetup.exe

    Edit February 2018: This functionality has now been integrated into Visual Studio 2012 and later as Code Analysis

  • Clocksharp, based on code source analysis (to C# 2.0)

  • Mono.Gendarme, similar to FxCop but with an open source licence (based on Mono.Cecil)

  • Smokey, similar to FxCop and Gendarme, based on Mono.Cecil. No longer on development, the main developer works with Gendarme team now.

  • Coverity Prevent™ for C#, commercial product

  • PRQA QA·C#, commercial product

  • PVS-Studio, commercial product

  • CAT.NET, visual studio addin that helps identification of security flaws Edit November 2019: Link is dead.

  • CodeIt.Right

  • Spec#

  • Pex

  • SonarQube, FOSS & Commercial options to support writing cleaner and safer code.

Quality Metric Tools:

  • NDepend, great visual tool. Useful for code metrics, rules, diff, coupling and dependency studies.
  • Nitriq, free, can easily write your own metrics/constraints, nice visualizations. Edit February 2018: download links now dead. Edit June 17, 2019: Links not dead.
  • RSM Squared, based on code source analysis
  • C# Metrics, using a full parse of C#
  • SourceMonitor, an old tool that occasionally gets updates
  • Code Metrics, a Reflector add-in
  • Vil, old tool that doesn’t support .NET 2.0. Edit January 2018: Link now dead

Checking Style Tools:

  • StyleCop, Microsoft tool ( run from inside of Visual Studio or integrated into an MSBuild project). Also available as an extension for Visual Studio 2015 and C#6.0
  • Agent Smith, code style validation plugin for ReSharper

Duplication Detection:

  • Simian, based on source code. Works with plenty languages.
  • CloneDR, detects parameterized clones only on language boundaries (also handles many languages other than C#)
  • Clone Detective a Visual Studio plugin (which uses ConQAT internally)
  • Atomiq, based on source code, plenty of languages, cool “wheel” visualization

General Refactoring tools

  • ReSharper – Majorly cool C# code analysis and refactoring features

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