Custom UI to when double clicking an Issue in the results pane

In a nutshell we are writing a set of rules that check for "good" architecture guidelines and some of our rules don’t give out static good or bad results. Several of the rules I'm working on right now collect a lot of data during the rule analysis. Then it saves this to a file and creates a Problem and returns it from the Check method. We then have a separate tool that opens that file and displays several visualizations of this data, so the user can look for certain visual patterns represented (many times people can visually see certain patterns that an algorithm might be hard pressed, computationally or feasibly, to find).

What I’d like (love actually) is for each issue/problem to have a state object that I can put my analysis results into. Then when I double click the issue in the FxCop UI, my plug-in UI is invoked for that rule and the UI would pull the state out of the issue/problem and use it to build the visualization.

The problem is that you guys wrote an incredibly useful engine and wrapped a very restrictive UI around it. My hats off to you for what you have done with the analysis engine. But my problems lie in that my ideas for using the analysis results are much bigger than what the FxCop UI allows. You guys created a monster but it’s a great monster.

JohnCMCSD at 2007-9-9 >

I had originally started using the CCI library that ships with FxCop, but after a while found the Cecil library i switched. And since the API's were very similar my rewrites only took a few days.

JohnCMCSD at 2007-9-9 >