Are you looking to eradicate bugs and ensure consistency? SSW Code Auditor is a code analysis tool that allows developers to take control of your code, ensuring large, complex source code can be simplified, cleaned and maintained. The built-in rules focus on the most popular .NET languages (C#, VB.NET) for both Windows Forms and ASP.NET; however, the flexibility of SSW Code Auditor allows the developer to add their own rules to target any language in any text file.

As a project or company grows, managing code standards throughout your team becomes virtually impossible. Consistent code is crucial to future development and maintenance. SSW Code Auditor lets you take control of your code and automatically review your web apps and projects - giving you more opportunity to spend time where it really matters.

Here at SSW, we face the problem of maintaining our standards across nearly five thousand web pages, over twenty active projects in both Visual Basic (6 and .NET) and C#. There comes a point where a tool to check our work is needed, this tool is SSW Code Auditor.

SSW Code Auditor utilizes the power of Regular Expressions to audit your code. This powerful feature permits the user to write their own set of rules and have different rules for different projects.

Key Features & Benefits

SSW Code Auditor allows to you:

• Verify that coding standards are maintained
• Prevent bad coding practices
• Seamlessly integrates with VS.NET

	Great, user-friendly wizard style interface With our standards compliant user interface, you are sure to have a consistently great operating environment with SSW products.
	Make your own rules! With our powerful regular expression enabled parsing engine, you have the flexibility to scan any text file for any kinds of rules. Rules can check specific filetypes and have exceptions based on other regular expression matches.
	Stay on top of things... Code Auditor has in-built scheduling and email notification functionality so you can have regular reminders of what needs attention in your projects!
	Spanning the big picture Scan any number of directory trees with extensible path selection. As many development projects can be covered by your rules as you wish.
	Report Output See a sample good report from the Code Auditor process. See a sample bad report from the Code Auditor process.
	Visual Studio Add-in Audit your project directly from Visual Studio with just a click. **Works in Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 ** See the tutorial.
	Team Foundation Studio Add-in Automatically adds an additional Check-in policy that runs SSW Code Auditor and stops developers from check in code that violates rules. Custom check-in policy for VSTS Whitepaper
	Built-in sample projects & sample database We offer a sample database and kinds of sample projects to help you run a professional demo scan.

More Technical Features include the ability to:

• Check any text file
• Check file names
• Scan project directories for code that violates your rules
• Perform deep traversal of directories
• Scan websites for HTML that violates your rules - including the information served by the web server!
• Validate HTML code by using the Tidy HTML engine
• Use the report that is written to an .mdb, or to export to XML
• Organize separate projects into jobs
• Allow exceptions to rules, thus ignoring files that you are aware of
• Full scheduling abilities with email alerts, providing regular automated checks on your code base.
• Use Regular Expression to define more rules
• Regular Expression builder included

See more screenshots in the Code Auditor User guide.

Upcoming Features

• TFS Check-in policy for VS2008/TFS2008
• Auto update rules from our webservice
• Share your rules with others
• Release 17 - Upgrade to LINQ

System Requirements

• .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 or later
• VS 2005 (if using VS 2005 Add-in)
• VS 2008 SP1 or later (if using VS 2008 Add-in)
• TFS (if using TFS Check-in policy)

Predefined Rules - these are the most popular built in rules

Professional developers consider it really important to keep their application/website in good shape. Regular code reviews with Software Architects are important and expensive. Save money and use Code Auditor before any manual code review. Some of the Code Auditor rules are big and some are small. Their business value adds up. For example, if Google doesn’t index your page because of some minor issue that you never thought about, that will decrease the traffic to your site. Take advantage of the years of experience in the Code Auditor rules and get your application following many of the industry standards and programming best practices.

Top 5 rules:

1. FONT tags must not be used
   Reason: Did you know if you code your styles correctly, you can change them in one place. To get better web styling remove FONT and BASEFONT tags. BTW they are deprecated by W3C so they will be removed in a future version of HTML. More Info ...
2. Google File Size Limit
   Reason: Did you know if your web page is greater than 2.5MB, it will not be indexed by Google. More Info ....
3. Table tags should not specify the width
   Reason: Did you know that Table tags should not specify the width More Info ...
4. Use Standard width for  Ellipsis button.
   Reason: Did you know that there is a convention for the width of an 'Ellipsis' button. More Info ....
5. A Windows Form should have a minimum size to avoid unexpected UI behavior.
   Reason: Did you know that a user can make a form unusuable so you need to keep a minimum size for each window form. More Info ...

More Rules ..

Do they go in Code Auditor or Link Auditor?

What does the unregistered version give me?

In respect to the unregistered version we know you want to see it working before you buy it. We aim for that.
Note: we also give free version targeted to the little guys
More details see http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/KB/KB.aspx?KBID=Q658302

SSW provides free phone and email support to answer queries on registered products.

How to show that your application is 'SSW Code Auditor' Compliant

To show your users that you have taken the care to create a 'healthy' code, you may display this icon on any web pages and applications that validates.

For web pages:
Here is the HTML you could use to add this icon to your web page:

<p>
    <a href="http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/CodeAuditor">
    <img src="http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/CodeAuditor/Images/codeauditorcompliant.gif"
        alt="Code Auditor compliant" height="50" width="148" /></a>
</p>
                

Download the logo in PNG or GIF format.

Where should I put this icon?

We recommend that the logo to be placed on your website footer or in the About Box if it's a winform application.

Getting Support

If you can't find it in the product documentation then check our knowledge base for further information and tips about this product.

If you think that one of our rules is incorrect then please tell us about it.

Please send us bug reports and feedback so that we can evolve our software into a product that matches your requirements. We guarantee a response.

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