Is FxCop internals being used in any other products
First let me say thanks for all the support your providing on this forum.
In browsing around the different threads it seems like you elude to the fact that the engine that FxCop uses for its analysis is also used in other ways / places / products. Specifically when you say that many of the exposed methods dont do anything because it could be used to parse abstrace syntax trees from source, but FxCop uses it as a binary interpreter of the IL and many of these constructs dont exist in IL.
I also noticed a while back a microsoft research paper titled"Common Compiler Infrastructure". The paper is very rough in details (i think generated from a power point file) but a lot of the code API seems to be very similar to the publicly exposed API in the various FxCop dlls.
Is the FxCop engine part of a larger plan / product? Is it an offshoot from another project?
Dont know if you can say, but I'm curious.
Thanks
John
