FxCop spell check language

We had discontent on the team today. Can you believe people actually dissing FxCop? Turns out they were just upset about the spelling - it's making us spell in American English, rather than British English.

I can feel the pain - it still makes me wince whenever I see "Favorites". And it's just wrong to spell it "color".

Easily fixed - simply change the spell language in the project options dialog.

Or, if you never use the GUI (e.g. if you've gone continuous integration crazy) then it's in the .fxcop file. It's a normal .net locale; "en-gb", "en-us" or just plain "en". (//FxCopProject/ProjectOptions/Spelling[@Locale])

One thing that isn't surfaced in the UI is that you can specify multiple locales to check. Simply provide a comma separated list of locales. FxCop will try to match each word against the first in the list. If it doesn't match, it moves on to the next locale. Handy.

Thanks Reflector!