The post you cited is actually pretty recent. The use of .fxcop
files is still the only way to configure the rules. (If you're not fond of this limitation, you might want to vote at http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/2406555-allow-code-analysis-rules-to-be-configured-via-ru.)
You can use the FxCop 10.0 UI to create a "seed" .fxcop
file, but you will need to edit it by hand to add the settings. To integrate with Visual Studio, you can use the CodeAnalysisProject
MSBuild property to specify the relative path to the .fxcop
file.