How do you use stylecop with .xaml files

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I have been tasked with utilizing stylecop on .xaml files. Does anyone have a good place to start looking for the best way to accomplish this task. I have drifted around the internet and have yet to find a good solution. Our development environment is VS 2010 WPF application. Thank you for your help.

I am not sure if it's possible to use stylecop with xaml. However, I use Xaml Styler (http://xamlstyler.codeplex.com/) to format XAML codes properly. — Amit, Nov 22 '11 at 07:04

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 26 '12 at 15:03

StyleCop is a source analysis tool to increase the readability of it. Visual Studio itself would be a good place to start. When you start writing xaml using VS it automatically indents code.

Here is an example

<Window x:Class="WpfApplication3.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525">
<Grid>
<Button Content="Hi" />
</Grid>
</Window>

This is what is expected (I think)

<Window x:Class="WpfApplication3.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525">
    <Grid>
        <Button Content="Hi" />
    </Grid>
</Window>

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 15 '12 at 19:43

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The Microsoft Xaml Toolkit has Fxcop integration you might find useful.

blog posting: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wpf/archive/2010/07/28/microsoft-xaml-toolkit-ctp-july-2010-fxcop-integration.aspx

downloads: http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/XAML

answered Oct 15 '12 at 19:43

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 21 '12 at 19:33

As per http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/sourceanalysis, StyleCop only analyzes C# source code - XAML is a completely different language. If your boss or manager tasked you with using StyleCop on the .xaml files - what they probably meant (and you should double check with them rather than take my word for it), is to analyse the associated xaml.cs files. Every xaml file is a partial class - one part of the class is the XAML (which gets translated to an automatic xaml.designer.cs file which you cannot and should not mess with) - and the other part of the class (often called the codebehind) is the .xaml.cs. This document is one you can use StyleCop on, although some of it's rules may be confused by the fact that it's being run on only one half of a partial class.

That's the best you can hope to accomplish.

Also you can try to analyze the "other part" of the xaml: indeed xaml is compiled into .cs, all files are put into the `/obj` folder with extension `.g.cs` — , May 04 '12 at 05:50

How do you use stylecop with .xaml files

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