[RFE] Rules to consider for .Net modernization

[johnbuckley]

Attaching a spreadsheet of suggested rules
DotNetRules.xlsx

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[rromannissen]

@djzager @dymurray @pranavgaikwad for your consideration.

[djzager]

@johnbuckley First, thank you very much for sharing this resource.

Spending some time looking at turning this into a consumable ruleset for Konveyor, I wonder if you could speak to the relationship between "Target Type", "Target member", "Header for assembly name entries". The sheet with these columns seems to me the most obvious candidate for making into a ruleset. However, devising a scheme that makes sense for each row has been difficult.

As an example, take a row like this:

T:System.Windows.ResourceDictionary T:System.Windows.ResourceDictionary Microsoft.Xrm.Tooling.CrmConnectControl Not supported

Should the rule look like...

- message: |
    Use appropriate type of files for migration from your Windows Forms-based desktop app from .NET Framework to .NET Core 3.0 or later.
  description: |
    Use appropriate type of files for migration from your Windows Forms-based desktop app from .NET Framework to .NET Core 3.0 or later.
  ruleID: dotnet-ruleset-0001
  when:
    - dotnet.referenced:
        pattern: "CrmConnectControl"
        namespace: "Microsoft.Xrm.Tooling"

Or...

- message: |
    Use appropriate type of files for migration from your Windows Forms-based desktop app from .NET Framework to .NET Core 3.0 or later.
  description: |
    Use appropriate type of files for migration from your Windows Forms-based desktop app from .NET Framework to .NET Core 3.0 or later.
  ruleID: dotnet-ruleset-0001
  when:
    - dotnet.referenced:
        pattern: "ResourceDictionary"
        namespace: "System.Windows"

Neither is unique, that is both System.Windows.ResourceDictionary and Microsoft.Xrm.Tooling.CrmConnectControl are referenced multiple times (some rows are missing the Header for assembly name entries).

tl;dr I'm struggling to construct an algorithm that translates the sheet into a ruleset that properly communicates, "I see this in your application source. That is a problem because . You could mitigate this by doing < x , y, or z >"