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duncanp-sonar edited this page Jan 30, 2020 · 8 revisions

Supported IDEs

See https://www.sonarlint.org/ for information about the currently supported IDEs, and also for details of which languages are supported in which IDEs.

Unsupported IDEs

SonarLint is not currently available for Rider or Visual Studio for Mac. Also, the SonarLint extension for Visual Studio Code does not currently support analysing C# code.

However, it is still possible to use the Sonar C# and VB.NET analyzers in those IDEs with a little manual configuration.

Support for analysing C#/VB.NET in other IDEs

Rider, Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio for Mac all support running Roslyn analyzers that are shipped as NuGet packages. This includes Sonar C# and VB.NET rules.

The NuGet package id for the Sonar C# rules is SonarAnalyzer.CSharp. The NuGet package id for the Sonar VB.NET rules is SonarAnalyzer.VisualBasic

See below for information on setting up analysis in specific IDEs.

Visual Studio for Mac

To configure a project to use the Sonar C# analyser, edit the project file to include the following XML:

  <!-- Import and configure the SonarC# analyzer -->
  <PropertyGroup>
    <SonarAnalyzerVersion>8.2.0.14119</SonarAnalyzerVersion>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="SonarAnalyzer.CSharp" Version="$(SonarAnalyzerVersion)" />
    <Analyzer Include="$(NuGetPackageRoot)SonarAnalyzer.CSharp/$(SonarAnalyzerVersion)/analyzers/*.dll" Visible="false" />
  </ItemGroup>

Use SonarAnalyzer.VisualBasic instead of SonarAnalyzer.CSharp to configure the Sonar VB.NET analyser.

Note: Visual Studio for Mac supports Directory.Build.props files so instead of editing every project file you could create a single Directory.Build.props file at solution level or repo level that will apply to all projects in the solution/repo.

Note: you can add references to NuGet packages through the UI but that will not add the necessary Analzyerentries in the project file - you would still have to add them manually by editing the project file. See this StackOverflow post for more information.

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