Best Practice Analyzer for ASP.NET

The ASP.NET Best Practice Analyzer (alpha release) is a tool that scans the configuration of an ASP.NET 2.0 application. The tool can scan against three mainline scenarios (hosted environment, production environment, or development environment) and identify problematic configuration settings in the machine.config or web.config files associated with your ASP.NET application.

This is an alpha release intended to gain feedback on the tool and the configuration rules included with it, so we look forward to your feedback and rules.

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Scan Your ASP.NET 2.0 Configuration

The ASP.NET Best Practice Analyzer includes the following features:

  • Ability to select a machine.config, root web.config, and site web.config file associated with your ASP.NET application
  • Distinguishes between errors, warnings, and best practices
  • Scans can be named, saved, and retrieved at a later date
  • Rules are written in an editable XML configuration file, making it possible to quickly add new rules to the tool

Submit Your Custom Rules and Other Feedback

Leave feedback for the tool or suggest a new rule on the Developer Solutions Power Toy Forums.

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Make ASP.NET Best Practice Analyzer Tool Even Better!

Currently, ASP.NET Best Practice Analyzer is in alpha, so we would love for you to send us feedback, bug reports, and feature suggestions on the Developer Solutions Power Toy Forums.

The final release for ASP.NET Best Practice Analyzer will be as a shared source project. Do you have a feature suggestion? Do you have a rule you would like to share with the community? For the final release, you'll be able to download the source and share your changes.

ASP.NET Best Practice Analyzer Tool is a member of Power Toys for Microsoft Visual Studio, developed by the Developer Solutions team at Microsoft Corporation.

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