.NET Analyzer - 2.0

Extension ID

com.castsoftware.dotnet

What’s new?

See .NET Analyzer - 2.0 - Release Notes .

Description

This extension provides support for analyzing applications built with .NET, .NET Standard and .NET Core technologies: objects and links between these objects are identified and Automated Function Point values are calculated. A set of .NET specific structural rules are also available with the extension.

Isofunctionality

This release of the extension is based on the 1.5.0-funcrel release.

Technology support

Please also see .NET - Technical notes and limitations for additional information.

Visual Studio / .NET Framework support

The following are implicitly supported:

• ADO.NET
• ASP.NET
• ASP.NET Core
• iFrame
• Interop
• WinForms
• WPF 
• LINQ
  • LINQ to Objects
  • LINQ to DataSets
  • LINQ to SQL

Function Point, Quality and Sizing support

CAST Imaging Core compatibility

Prerequisites

Required third-party software on node

No third-party software is required. Any requirements are provided by the com.castsoftware.dotnet.thirdparties dependent extension.

Source code delivery

• Complete source code must be delivered for analysis after a DEBUG type build.
• The source code must include all the generated files which are essential for a successful analysis, i.e. all files with the extensions .g.cs (C#) or .g.vb (VB.Net).
• Note that it is not necessary to deliver .cs or .vb files from the obj folder (files like obj\Debug\net6.0\GlobalUsingDirectiveInCSharp.GlobalUsings.g.cs).

Location of the source code deployment folder

It is possible (and usually recommended) to configure the source code Deployment folder on a network share, however, in the case of .NET analyses, CAST recommends that the Deployment folder is located on the same server as the Node. If the Deployment folder is located on a remote network file share, there is a risk that assemblies may not be loaded correctly during the analysis, causing external objects to not be saved.

Location of extensions folder on Node

If you have altered the location where extensions are stored from %PROGRAMDATA%\CAST\CAST\Extensions to a network location remote to the node (for example changing the CAST_PLUGINS_ROOT_PATH in the CastGlobalSettings.ini file) then you will need to add the following lines to the .NET Framework machine.config file (located on the node). This is to ensure that the .NET Analyzer DLLs located in the remote network folder can be successfully run from a network location. The analysis will fail without this configuration.

Replace the following tag:

<runtime />

with:

<runtime>
    <loadFromRemoteSources enabled="true"/>
</runtime>

Dependent frameworks and third-party packages provided in the extension

Some dependent frameworks and third-party packages are provided in the extension and in com.castsoftware.dotnet.thirdparties . There is therefore no need to specifically package these items if your source code relies on them - note however, that CAST Imaging Console will generate missing library/assembly alerts for these items - these alerts can safely be ignored.

Frameworks

• .NET Framework
• .NET Core
• .NET Standard

Third-party packages

• Microsoft.AspNetCore.All (ASP.NET)
• Microsoft.AspNetCore.App (ASP.NET)
• log4net
• NHibernate
• NPersistence
• NLog
• Newtonsoft.Json
• Newtonsoft.Json.Bson
• MySql.Data
• Iesi.Collections
• EntityFramework
• Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.2008
• elmah.corelibrary
• System.Data.SqlClient
• Serilog
• Remotion.Linq

Dependencies with other extensions

Some extensions require the presence of other extensions in order to function correctly. The .NET Analyzer extension requires that the following other extensions are also installed:

• com.castsoftware.wbslinker
• com.castsoftware.dotnet.thirdparties  (only in Linux environment)

Note that when using CAST Imaging Console to install the extension, any dependent extensions are automatically downloaded and installed for you. You do not need to do anything.

Download and installation instructions

For .NET applications, the extension will be automatically installed by CAST Imaging Console:

What results can you expect?

Objects

Icon	Name	Parent
	Project	-
	Application	Project
	Directory	Application
	C Source File	Application, Directory
	VB.NET Source File	Application, Directory
	ASA / Asax Source File	Application, Directory
	ASP Source File	Application, Directory
	Aspx Source File	Application, Directory
	Ascx Source File	Application, Directory
	Asmx Source File	Application, Directory
	Configuration Source File	Application, Directory
	Data Set Source File	Application, Directory
	Htc / Htm / Html Source File	Application, Directory
	Java Script Source File	Application, Directory
	Master Source File	Application, Directory
	Settings Source File	Application, Directory
	Skin Source File	Application, Directory
	Xaml Source File	Application, Directory
	Visual Basic Script File	Application, Directory
	Class	Namespace, Interface, Class, Generic Class
	Constant (field)	Class, Generic Class
	Delegate	Class, Generic Class
	Enumeration	Class, Generic Class
	Enumeration Item	Enumeration
	Event	Class, Generic Class
	Event Add On	Event
	Event Remove On	Event
	Interface	Namespace, Interface, Class, Generic Class
	Field (non constant)	Interface, Class, Generic Class
-	Finalizer	Class, Generic Class
	Generic Class	Namespace, Interface, Class, Generic Class
	Generic Method	Generic Class
	Generic Property	Generic Class
	Indexer	Method, Generic Method
	Indexer Getter	Interface, Class, Generic Class
	Indexer Setter	Interface, Class, Generic Class
	Method	Interface, Class, Generic Class
	Module (VB.NET only)	-
	Namespace	Application, Namespace
	Operator	Interface, Class, Generic Class
	Property	Interface, Class, Generic Class
	Property Getter	Interface, Class, Generic Class
	Property Setter	Interface, Class, Generic Class
	Structure	Interface, Class, Generic Class, Method, Generic Method
	Windows Forms	Class
	Windows Forms User Control	Class

Structural rules

The following rules are provided in the extension:

See also the following rules provided in the default CAST Assessment Model shipped with CAST Imaging Core:

The following extensions also provide .NET specific rules:

• com.castsoftware.nosqldotnet
• com.castsoftware.dotnetweb
• com.castsoftware.securityanalyzer