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Code Analyzer Overview

The CodeSMART Code Analyzer is a valuable tool that can be used to examine Visual Basic code and searching for code that can lead to buggy, slow and fat programs. It can be seen as a control quality tool for Visual Basic programmers who want to refine the code they write by making it smaller, faster and with less errors.

The Code Analyzer covers three major categories problem-code:

Dead (unused) code and symbols: code that is no longer used. This code usually has a negative impact on the compiled program's size.
Performance issues: certain statements and code that usually reduces execution speed.
Potential problems: code that has a known potential of generating errors.

The Code Analyzer is fully integrated into the Visual Basic IDE so that after the detection phase you can immediately start solving the reported problems. The analysis results are displayed in the Code Analyzer pane of the Enhanced Immediate window:

An entry in the Code Analyzer pane displays a detailed description of the detected problem with location information and (if applicable) suggestions on how to correct it. Double-click an entry in this pane to jump directly to the faulty code.

The Code Analyzer pane view can be fully customized and the formatted analysis results can be printed.

See also

Dead Code Detection

Slow Code Detection

Potential Problems Detection

Collection Classes Options

Other Options

Analyzing Code