Introducing Analysis Tools

Visual Studio 2010 offers the following analysis tools, which can help you produce high-quality applications:

• Code Analysis, which analyzes code for compliance with Microsoft coding rules

• Code Metrics, which returns statistic results and analyzes code maintainability according to specific indexes;

• Profiler, which analyzes application performance and suggests solutions for solving problems

• IntelliTrace, formerly known as Historical Debugger, which allows keeping track of every single event and exceptions happening during the entire application lifetime

In this chapter you learn to take advantage of the listed tools for improving quality in your code.