2. What is SonarLint?
• SonarLint is a free, open source, and available in the Visual Studio
Gallery, which supports C#, VB.NET which will help you fix code
quality issues before they even exist.
• SonarLint plugin for Visual Studio supports only in Visual Studio 2015
and Visual Studio 2017, Pycharm, Eclipse. IntelliJ IDEA
3. Features of SonarLint :
Instant View :
SonarLint will provide developers with instant feedback in their IDEs as
they are writing code, like with a spell checker. SonarLint also shows
already existing issues in the code and enables developers to
differentiate what issues they introduced.
4. On-the-fly Detection :
Issues appear as you type code. SonarLint provides the facility to identify problems as you
write code, just like a spell checker for text.
Smart Education :
Error descriptions come with issue detection. It provides Rich documentation which will let
you understand issues in details and explain what is coding best practices.
It gives a code example and shows how to resolve the example issue which is easy to
understand the issue. In this way, it is powerful tools for developers to learn.
