Mike Gunderloy reviewed Compuware's DevPartner SecurityChecker for ADTmag.com here. DevPartner SecurityChecker is the new product in the DevPartner productivity suite on which I blogged earlier here and here.
"Compuware has done an excellent job with this one; it's well-polished, and works right out of the box. With reports available as HTML, it should be relatively easy to integrate into a process that keeps track of build quality as well. Unless you are an absolute super-coder, it will probably spot enough problems with your code to make you glad you started using it. You can request a 14-day evaluation copy by visiting the Compuware Web site."
If you want to dig in into SecurityChecker and you have both the .NET Framework v1.1 and v2.0 installed note the following:
DevPartner SecurityChecker currently will integrate with Visual Studio .NET 2003. Later versions will support Visual Studio 2005. However, the v1.0 DevPartner products work only with ASP.NET v1.1, and not v2.0.
You can use the DevPartner products on a machine that has both Visual Studio 2003 and a Beta version of Visual Studio 2005 installed. But doing so requires that you reset the ASP.NET version back to v1.1, since a Visual Studio 2005 installation will set it to ASP.NET v2.0 by default.
To reset the ASP.NET version back to v1.1:
- Start the IIS management utility.
- Select your under-development Web Site from the Web Sites folder.
- Bring up the Properties for the Web Site.
- Select the ASP.NET tab.
- Choose ASP.NET version 1.1.