#224 – One Example of a Problem that Code Analysis Would Catch

As an example of the type of issues that code analysis would catch, consider the following piece of code.

        static void Main()
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Grande schmande, just give me some coffee..");
        }

This code obviously works fine–it just prints out a string.  But if we want to someday localize this program, we’ll want to be reading the string from a resource file, rather than hard-coding it like this.  So when we build the project with code analysis turned on, we see the following warning:

CA1303: Do not pass literals as localized parameters

An externally visible method passes a string literal as a parameter to a constructor or method in the .NET Framework class library, and that string should be localizable.

We see this warning in the Error List window when we build the project.