Code analyzers can provide you with a lot of functionality and assist developers in writing good code by avoiding common bad coding practices and enforcing specific team guidelines. Each code analyzer can be set to a different severity, with the most severe actually breaking the build. Keeping code analyzers under the references in your projects allows you to check it in to source control; this is evaluated whenever you build your project. You can however also store analyzers on a per-machine basis. These analyzers will be for personal code improvement, prompts, and personal use.

Code analyzers are perfect for modern day developers because they are under the control of the developer and integrate easily into Visual Studio.