Code violation detection Tools:
- Fxcop, excellent tool by Microsoft. Check compliance with .net framework guidelines.(No longer available as a standalone download. It is now included in the Windows SDK and after installation can be found in Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\ [v7.1] \Bin\FXCop\FxCopSetup.exe)
- Clocksharp, based on code source analysis (to C# 2.0)
- Mono.Gendarme, similar to Fxcop but with an opensource licence (based on Mono.Cecil)
- Smokey, similar to Fxcop and Gendarme, based on Mono.Cecil. No longer on development, the main developer works with Gendarme team now.
- Coverity Prevent™ for C#, commercial product
- PRQA QA·C#, commercial product
- PVS-Studio, commercial product
- CAT.NET , visual studio addin that helps identification of security flaws
- CodeIt.Right
- Spec#
- Pex
Quality Metric Tools:
- NDepend, great visual tool. Useful for coupling and dependency studies.
- Nitriq, free, can easily write your own metrics/constraints, nice visualizations.
- RSM Squared, based on code source analysis
- C# Metrics, using a full parse of C#
- SourceMonitor, old tool EDIT a new version is out
- Code Metrics, a Reflector add-in
- Vil, old tool that doesn’t support .NET 2.0
Checking Style Tools:
- StyleCop, Microsoft tool ( run from inside of Visual Studio or integrated into an MSBuild project). Also available as an extension for Visual Studio 2015 and C#6.0.
- Agent Smith, code style validation plugin for ReSharper
Duplication Detection:
- Simian, based on source code. Works with plenty languages.
- CloneDR, detects parameterized clones only on language boundaries (also handles many languages other than C#)
- Clone Detective a Visual Studio plugin. (It uses ConQAT internally)
- Atomiq, based on source code, plenty of languages, cool “wheel” visualization
General Refactoring tools
- ReSharper – Majorly cool C# code analysis and refactoring features
