Did a quick search but could not find anything about this.
I guess all of you know that the Visual Studio Code Analysis is quite nitpicking and gives warnings about a lot of things. Does anybody know how well Microsoft follow this themselves..? That is, if I were to run a code analysis on their assemblies, would the warnings be none or very few (perhaps surpress warning with a justification..?).
Most of the things that code analysis (or FXCop) check are closely based on the “.NET Framework Library Design Guidelines” (either the book, or on MSDN).
However those guidelines (especially in the book) have caveats, not all apply in all circumstances.
There are plenty of indications that MS do use these tools, but I assume they do have reasons to not apply all the rules all the time, as any other project does.