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After a long time, many fixes, useful features (e.g. inclusion and exclusion) and hours triming down false positives, we're proud to announce Gendarme 0.0.4! [source tarball]

Here are the list (with links) to the new rules that Gendarme now provides. Most of them were contributed during the Google Summer of Code 2007.

Gendarme.Rules.BadPractice (new)

• CloneMethodShouldNotReturnNullRule
• EqualShouldHandleNullArgRule
• ImplementingEqualsButNotGetHashCodeAndViceVersaRule
• ToStringReturnsNullRule

Gendarme.Rules.Concurrency

• WriteStaticFieldFromInstanceMethodRule

Gendarme.Rules.Correcness

• AvoidConstructorsInStaticTypesRule
• CallingEqualsWithNullArgRule
• FloatComparisonRule
• MethodCanBeMadeStaticRule
• UseValueInPropertySetterRule

Gendarme.Rules.Design (new)

• DontDeclareProtectedFieldsInSealedClassRule
• UsingCloneWithoutImplementingICloneableRule

Gendarme.Rules.Exceptions

• DontSwallowErrorsCatchingNonspecificExceptionRule

Gendarme.Rules.Naming (new)

• AttributesEndsWithAttributeSuffixRule
• DetectNonAlphaNumericsInTypeNamesRule
• EnumsNotEndsWIthEnumOrFlagsSuffixRule
• UsePluralNameInEnumFlagsRule
• UseSingularNameInEnumsUnlessAreFlagsRule

Gendarme.Rules.Performance

• AvoidToStringOnStringRule
• AvoidUncalledPrivateCodeRule
• AvoidUninstantiatedInternalClassesRule
• AvoidUnusedParametersRule
• DontIgnoreMethodResultRule

Gendarme.Rules.Smells (new)

• AvoidCodeDuplicatedInSameClassRule
• AvoidCodeDuplicatedInSiblingClassesRule
• AvoidLargeClassRule
• AvoidLongMethodsRule
• AvoidLongParameterListsRule
• AvoidSpeculativeGeneralityRule

Gendarme.Rules.Ui (new)

• GtkSharpExecutableTargetRule
• SystemWindowsFormsExecutableTargetRule

Contributors for this release:
Nestor Salceda, Nidhi Rawal, Lukasz Knop, JB Evain & Sebastien Pouliot

Questions ? See us live on #gendarme on GIMPNet or drop us a mail on our Google Group.

p.s. since I don't blog very often these days it looks like a good occasion to say merry christmas and happy new year (void where prohibited).