I have a binary file. I don't know how it's formatted, I only know it comes from a delphi code. Does it exist any way to analyze a binary file? Does it exist any "pattern" to analyze and deseri...

I have placed all python project sources in a single folder. Running the following pylint only seems to be looking and analyzing for duplicates within each source file and not across all which is w...

I ran the VS 2008 code analysis tool against an object I created and received the following suggestion ... Warning 147 CA1021 : Microsoft.Design : Consider a design that does not require that ...

Recently, I had the following struct data { std::vector<int> V; }; data get_vector(int n) { std::vector<int> V(n,0); return {V}; } The problem with this code is that when the st...

The following code generates two CA2000 warnings (among others, but that's not the point). public sealed class Item: IDisposable { public void Dispose() {} } public sealed class ItemContainer { ...

So I have a C# class library project that I only intend to use on Windows. It contains some classes that use the System.Drawing.Image class which is only available on Windows. After upgrading to Vi...

I am getting a code analysis warning that seems to be a false-positive. CA1812 : Microsoft.Performance : 'MyClass.MyPrivateClass' is an internal class that is apparently never instantiated. If s...

While searching through a Python project, I found a few lines commented with # noqa. import sys sys.path.append(r'C:\dev') import some_module # noqa What does noqa mean in Python? Is it specific...

I am currently storing normalized versions of strings in my SQL Server database in lower case. For example, in my Users table, I have a UserName and a LoweredUserName field. Depending on the contex...

I am using following commands to use the oclint with xcode 5- Step1: xcodebuild -target OClintDemo -configuration Debug -scheme OClintDemo -sdk iphonesimulator Step2: OClintDemo jenkins$ xcodebui...

http://klee.llvm.org/ is a program analysis tool that works by symbolic execution and constraint solving, finding possible inputs that will cause a program to crash, and outputting these as test ca...

When publishing an ASP.NET Core 3 API netcoreapp3.1 project with Visual studio 2019, several code analysis dlls are published too. Moreover the dlls are published in 13 languages plus the english v...

Currently I'm getting CA0055 and CA0052 code analysis errors (both with Visual Studio 2017 and also by using MSBuild command) after configuring ASP.Net Core 2.0 application with custom code analysi...

I'm using an .editorconfig file on a global level for the entire solution. This is working fine so far. The existing rules do work. Now I want a rule for VSTHRD200 for my test projects and classes,...

I'm looking for a Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tool and I can't afford the commercial products (eg. Checkmarx). SonarQube is a great static code analysis tool but I notice that ther...

I'm trying to write code that returns whether or not a given integer is divisible evenly by 1 to 20, but I keep receiving the following error: error CS0161: 'ProblemFive.isTwenty(int)': not all...

I am relying on this extensively on my workflow, but for some reasons this feature is now warning me of all the problems coming from node_modules, which obviously I'm not interested in. How can I ...

After upgrading my WinForms VS2013 project to VS2015, I started seeing the MSB3884 "Could not find rule set file" warning. A Google search turned up one MSDN article, which a Stack Overflow articl...

Code analysis: ON_NOTIFY(TCN_SELCHANGE, IDC_TAB_HISTORY_TYPE, &CAssignHistoryDlg::OnTcnSelchangeTabHistoryType) Warning C26454: Arithmetic overflow: '-' operation produces a negative uns...

This seems a pretty straightforward thing to do, but I cannot find relevant information. In Visual Studio is very easy to calculate code metrics for all projects and I would like to do the same dur...

Analyzer feedback severity levels are explained in the documentation. But in my eyes silent and none severity levels seem both to have the same meaning - "I don't want this rule checked for": For ...

Is there a tool around that will list all the global variables in a C program? More specifically, is there a simple commandline tool that will do this, i.e. not a heavyweight IDE, CASE, graphical t...

How is it possible to get the FxCop custom dictionary to work correctly? I have tried adding words to be recognised to the file 'CustomDictionary.xml', which is kept in the same folder as the FxCo...

CA1305 is raised when there exists an overload that requires an IFormatProvider but this overload isn't used in the code. For example, the following code raises this warning: string.Format("{0} -...

We have several C++ projects that were built from the same codebase. There's a lot of similarities and common code between them but they were developed independently; source was not shared in any w...