For developers that just cannot get Visual Studio Premium, but still want to use some code analysis tool, I would recommend to take a look into new version of FXCop 10 from Microsoft.

Now it’s a part of official  Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4. You can download it for your version of OS (x86, x64 etc) from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=35AEDA01-421D-4BA5-B44B-543DC8C33A20&displaylang=en

After you install SDK, just go to %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin\FXCop folder and run setup for FXCop from here.

Ah, and be sure – new version support both .NET 2.0 / 3.5 and latest 4.0!

Hope this helps somebody

• Question (Q): Why Django build-in Web Server (development server) works VERY SLOWLY on Windows 7 ? And how to fix this?
  Answer (A): seems it’s all about DNS… To fix this just open C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file (in notepad for example) and uncomment (i.e. remove “#”) in the following line: 127.0.0.1 localhost

• to be continue…

In Windows 7, Go to Control Panel \ All Control Panel Items \ Programs and Features

Press “Turn Windows features on or off” and make sure that you select following features:

• Under Internet Information Services make sure that you select available options (including options in sub nodes), that you going to use. Usually it is everything, except probably ASP (but make sure you select ASP.NET instead), CGI (if you going to use any CGI development, PHP for example, you need to select this feature), Server-Side Includes, FTP Server (if you not need to setup own FTP Server) etc:

• Make sure you select Windows Communication Foundation HTTP Activation and Non-HTTP Activation features (features used for example for Azure or WCF development) – see illustration above