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Roslyn Cookbook

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Roslyn Cookbook

Overview of this book

Open-sourcing the C# and Visual Basic compilers is one of the most appreciated things by the .NET community, especially as it exposes rich code analysis APIs to analyze and edit code. If you want to use Roslyn API to write powerful extensions and contribute to the C# developer tool chain, then this book is for you. Additionally, if you are just a .NET developer and want to use this rich Roslyn-based functionality in Visual Studio to improve the code quality and maintenance of your code base, then this book is also for you. This book is divided into the following broad modules: 1. Writing and consuming analyzers/fixers (Chapters 1 - 5): You will learn to write different categories of Roslyn analyzers and harness and configure analyzers in your C# projects to catch quality, security and performance issues. Moving ahead, you will learn how to improve code maintenance and readability by using code fixes and refactorings and also learn how to write them. 2. Using Roslyn-based agile development features (Chapters 6 and 7): You will learn how to improve developer productivity in Visual Studio by using features such as live unit testing, C# interactive and scripting. 3. Contributing to the C# language and compiler tool chain (Chapters 8 - 10): You will see the power of open-sourcing the Roslyn compiler via the simple steps this book provides; thus, you will contribute a completely new C# language feature and implement it in the Roslyn compiler codebase. Finally, you will write simple command line tools based on the Roslyn service API to analyze and edit C# code.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Dedication

Viewing and configuring analyzers in solution explorer in Visual Studio


In this recipe, we will show you how to use the Solution explorer in Visual Studio 2017 to view the different analyzers installed in a project, view the implemented analyzer rules in these assemblies, as well as the rule properties (or the descriptor metadata), and configure the rule severity and persist the new severity settings.

Getting ready

You will need to have created and opened a .NET project in Visual Studio 2017 with NuGet-based analyzers installed in the project. Refer to the first recipe in this chapter for installing analyzers in a .NET project.

How to do it...

  1. Open a C# project, say ClassLibrary, with the analyzer NuGet package System.Runtime.Analyzers.nupkg pre-release version 1.2.0-beta2 installed in it.
  2. In the solution explorer, expand References | Analyzers nodes to view the analyzer assemblies installed through the analyzer NuGet package(s). We should see two analyzer assemblies, System.Runtime.Analyzers...