Must Follow rules of FxCOP [closed]

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I´m using FxCOP and I want to know which are the most important rules or the rules that anybody can´t miss when using this tool.

I´m looking for some article or page with a list of rules that must be used in fxCop, this tool has a lot of rules and it's difficult to select only a few of them.

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That would depend very much on what sort of applications and/or APIs you are creating. If you're interested in general-purpose "must" or "should" use lists, you might want to start with the rule sets packaged for Visual Studio Code Analysis (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd264925.aspx). (N. B.: These include a few extra rules that aren't available in the free version of FxCop.) The following two rule sets might be of particular interest:

• Managed Minimum Rules
• Managed Recommended Rules

(Same answer as on the Microsoft forum.)