Anyone heard of Flexisoft's Standard Master 2004?

Neha (one of the developers I work with) found Flexisoft Solutions' Standards Master 2004 last night while looking for standards related tools. It looks like a pretty new tool that has a ton of stuff on it. There currently doesn't seem to be very many reviews of the tool right now.  Does anyone out there use it? Have any experience with it? 

From http://www.flexisoftsolutions.com/:

“Standards Master 2004 provides flexible, automated coding standards enforcement for Visual Studio .NET.

The latest version of our powerful, flexible coding standards enforcement tool features support for Visual Studio .NET 2003. Automatically check your naming conventions, commenting, formatting, and general code construction with this powerful tool! “

It looks like it is FxCop on steriods and more flexible (oh - and not free), but I honestly haven't downloaded the demo yet (so I could be wrong).

posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2004 4:51 PM

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# re: Anyone heard of Flexisoft's Standard Master 2004?

Standards Master 2004 is VB.NET only at the moment - a C# version is soon to be released. I managed to get on the devAdvantage 2.0 beta - it seems much better - supports C#, comes with a knowledge pack that enforces Microsoft Design Guidelines for Class Libraries - which is pretty useful - there are still a few features missing, but if you get on the beta and voice your opinion - you might be able to shape the tool.

I blogged about various coding standard enforcement tools I found when I had a hunt last month:

http://www.1succeeded0failed0skipped.com/PermaLink.aspx?guid=1d8d2016-120f-4fb3-adb5-ef7b370faf55
7/27/2004 11:05 PM | Howard van Rooijen

# re: Anyone heard of Flexisoft's Standard Master 2004?

Howard: Thanks for the link! I'll have to check out the other one's you have listed on your blog.
7/28/2004 3:07 AM | Jason Haley

# re: Anyone heard of Flexisoft's Standard Master 2004?

All -
FYI - We'll be releasing the C# version of Standards Master will be release this weekend.
7/31/2004 3:35 AM | Dan Petit

# re: Anyone heard of Flexisoft's Standard Master 2004?

I can't type. That should have been:
We'll be releasing the C# version of Standards Master this weekend...
7/31/2004 3:36 AM | Dan Petit

# re: Anyone heard of Flexisoft's Standard Master 2004?

I don't know about VB.NET, but for C# devAdvantage rocks! We tried FXCop, FMS total .net analyzer, Standards Master and devAdvantage. Alhtough devAdvantage could use some more rules accross the board, it does a couple of things really well. Threading problems and namaing conventions. It looks like they are going to be doing exception handling next. Definitely worth a look.

http://www.anticipatingminds.com/Content/Products/devAdvantage/devAdvantage.aspx

Greg
8/30/2004 1:16 AM | Greg

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