External analysis or communication when using SonarLint or SonarAnalyzer.CSharp

[danielwertheim (Daniel)]

Hi,

Are there any external communication when using SonarLint or the SonarAnalyzer.CSharp NuGet package?

Thanks

[danielwertheim (Daniel)]

To clarify, as in any external analytics of the code or is all happening in-process, where it is used?

[felipebz (Felipe Zorzo)]

Hi.

I think this answers your question:

I want to understand how sonarlint detects issue on the fly.Is it doing call to remote server or all rules are sitting locally in the ide

Hello @Vijay99, Welcome to the community! SonarLint always run analyses locally for on-the-fly detection. I realize that this might not be obvious in our documentation. Hope this helped, Damien

[Andrei_Epure]

@danielwertheim

or the SonarAnalyzer.CSharp NuGet package?

And regarding the NuGet package - our analyzers are Roslyn analyzers invoked by MSBuild - the analysis happens locally. There’s no external analytics of the code.

[danielwertheim (Daniel)]

@Andrei_Epure and just to clear: It’s not only the SonarLint extension that is free to use, but the NuGet analyzers as well?

[duncanp (Duncan Pocklington)]

@danielwertheim yes, that’s correct. The license is the same for both (LPGL.3.0).