Tales from the Coal Face - Reporting errors

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Published on Tue, 29 May 2012 05:56:04 GMT Indexed on 2012/05/30 16:43 UTC
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One of the questions that comes up frequently, is "Is it worthwhile to report errors?".

Last weekend, after installing the latest StyleCop I loaded up my copy of Power Collections. I found that StyleCop was now correctly picking up a lot of missing "this." statements, however there were now a number of false positives. Anticipating the need to submit sample code, I cleaned the solution and zipped it up.

I reported this at http://stylecop.codeplex.com/discussions/357319.  The stylecop administrator promoted this report to a work item (see http://stylecop.codeplex.com/workitem/7285) and I uploaded the previously prepared Zip file. The StyleCop team was able to locate the problem and it is "Fixed in upcoming 4.7.27".

The conclusion:
  • Report errors! 
  • Prepare sample code illustrating the error.

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