Frequently asked questions

No, there are no maintenance or mandatory onboarding fees. Unlimited support and software updates are included with your subscription. We will offer optional paid onboarding for your governance team at a later stage through our partners.

Yes, you can pay via purchase order. You will receive the license with your invoice upon receipt of your PO.

Absolutely! Please get in touch with our sales team directly if you prefer to pay via wire transfer.

Each rule, metric, dependency check, or inventory check must have a unique identifier called 'CheckID', (e.g. 'SPC016401').

SPCAF can analyze your customization without the source code. The standalone application accepts full trust/sandboxed solutions (.wsp), SharePoint Add-ins, Office Add-ins, SSOM/CSOM Assemblies (.dll), Executables (.exe), PowerShell scripts (.ps1), JavaScript (.js) files and SharePoint Framework packages (.spapp).

Yes, we offer discounts to established educational, governmental, non-profit, and charity entities. These special discounts cannot be combined with any other type of discount.

Yes. For simpler license management and bigger volumes, we offer also Enterprise licenses which cover a defined number or even unlimited users, farms servers at a fixed price.

The End User License Agreement is available on the following page.

A detailed "How-To" documentation to integrate Build into the TeamBuild of Team Foundation Server (TFS) or Visual Studio Online can be found in the article "VSTS TeamBuild"

SPCAF Build licenses are licensed by the number of servers. A server is a virtual or physical machine running one or more build agents using SPCAF.

The Microsoft SharePoint Online Code Analysis Framework (MSOCAF) is a free code analysis tool to check your sandboxed solutions for SharePoint Online. It supports only a limited number of checks (mostly included FxCop and SPDisposeCheck), does only support WSPs, created for SharePoint 2010 or earlier and provides only very limited quality assurance, sometimes even false and misleading.

SPCAF Quality Gate licenses (previously called Build/Server) are licensed by the number of servers and the number of CPU cores. A server is a virtual or physical machine running one or more build agents using SPCAF.

Perpetual licenses do not expire. It comes with "Software Assurance" for the first 12 months , which grants access to support and software updates. If "Software Assurance" is not renewed, the license will continue to work although, software updates and support will no longer be available.

FxCop is one of the 3rd party analyzers that can be integrated in SPCAF. Unfortunately, Microsoft chose to make it very hard to download and install FxCop.

Yes, you can request a trial key that enables all features. 20% of the analysis results are obfuscated. If you like to evaluate the full product without limitations please request a quote.

SPCAF requires the following components:

As standard, the Client Application, Visual Studio, and Command Line all have access to the standard Rulesets that come with SPCAF. These Rulesets, their purpose, and their location are listed below:

On very rare occasions the SPCAF versions will be renamed. This is usually to help with the understanding of what functions the version permits. Below are the current versions of SPCAF and the names they were formally known as.

CAT.NET is a binary code analysis tool, that helps identify common variants of certain prevailing vulnerabilities, that can give rise to common attack vectors such as Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), SQL Injection, and XPath Injection.

FxCop is an application that analyzes managed code assemblies (code that targets the .NET Framework common language runtime) and reports information about the assemblies, such as possible design, localization, performance, and security improvements. Many of the issues concern violations of the programming and design rules set forth in the Design Guidelines.aspx), which are the Microsoft guidelines for writing robust and easily maintainable code by using the .NET Framework.

FxCop Metrics is a set of software measures that provide developers better insight into the code they are developing. By taking advantage of code metrics, developers can understand which types and/or methods should be reworked or more thoroughly tested. Development teams can identify potential risks, understand the current state of a project, and track progress during software development.

Rencore Code is built around a robust architecture designed to analyze and ensure the quality, security, and maintainability of custom code used in SharePoint environments. The architecture integrates with various stages of the DevSecOps pipeline, allowing for continuous code analysis throughout the development, testing, and deployment phases.

Are valid indefinitely. Updates and support are included for the first 12 months with the software assurance. If you renew the software assurance subscription, you will get a new license key which grants you support and software updates for another 12 months.

Even though the name is quite similar, there is a big difference between them

R# is a productivity and refactoring tool for C# development, and SPCAF is a code quality analysis tool specifically designed for SharePoint customizations.

Both Starter and Professional Licenses are designed for analyzing code during code development and after it has been built. The Build License will automatically check code during the build process.

Is targeted to individuals who want to analyze locally via Visual Studio or the standalone client application. This license is limited to Quality Assessment reports.

Before we mention which type method of Lines of Code (SLOC) SPCAF. The two types of SLOC are:

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SPCAF analyzes the following SharePoint codes:

SPCAF provides a Software Development Kit (SDK) to create custom rules.

SPCAF Quality Gate Edition supports:

SPCAF supports SharePoint customization's targeting, in the following versions:

SPCAF supports SharePoint customizations targeting SharePoint 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, SharePoint Online and Office365.

The SPCAF standalone application accepts:

SPCAF Code Check and SPCAF Audit & Review support the following versions:

SPCAF performs the analysis of your customization without access to the source code by de-compiling the solution.

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