How to get most of SonarQube for Visual Studio and C#?

SonarQube for IDE Visual Studio
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Hello, I use SonarQube Cloud to analyze pullrequest builds (C#). Lets say this build with Sonar analysis takes 15 minutes. So after 15 minutes I can see issues caused by my new code.

That’s a lot of time, so I am interested in SonarQube extension for Visual Studio - if I understand it correctly, when I use it in Connected Mode, I can see the analysis results as I code. I want to see the same new issues as SonarQube Cloud would detect. But instead of this, I have to look into Errors window in Visual Studio and search for Sxxxx messages/warnings/errors which is not very convenient, because we have many other entries there (legacy code).

So I open Sonar Issue Visualization, but it is empty.

I also noticed, that in Errors window I see only Sxxxx messages for files, that are currently open. I want to see messages for all changed files. And there is maybe a bug - in an open file, the issue is marked with green dots for a while, and then the dots disappear and also the entry from Error window disapears on it’s own.

So my question is: How can I simply show only issues introduced by my changes and see them well-arranged in a single place?

Thanks,
Jozef

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Hi Jozef,

Welcome to the community!

Could you provide the information prompted for in the topic template, as well as your logs?

  • Operating system:
  • Visual Studio version:
  • SonarQube for Visual Studio plugin version:
  • Programming language you’re coding in:
  • Is connected mode used:
    • SonarQube Cloud, SonarQube Server, or SonarQube Community Build? (if one of the latter two, which version?):

 
Thx,
Ann

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Oh, sorry, here is the info:

  • Operating system: Windows 11
  • Visual Studio version: Professional 2022, 17.14.0
  • SonarQube for Visual Studio plugin version: 8.18.0.13071
  • Programming language you’re coding in: C#
  • Is connected mode used: Yes, SonarQube Cloud

I do not have logs for case when error disappeared - now it looks like it is working, so I see it in the currently open file underlined/squiggled (but I do not see whether the issue is from Visual Studio analyzer or ReSharper or Sonar). It just says Compiler Warning: ‘S1135: …’

My question is, how can I see all Sonar issues generated by my new changes (let say 15 files in Git Changes), as if I would see them when I create GitHub pullrequest with SonarQube Cloud.
I do not want to scroll and search for Sxxxx messages/warnings/errors in Error List in Visual studio, because we have many other messages and warnings there.

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Hi,

The idea is to show the issues in the file(s) you’re working in, so I suppose you would open them all and tab through them to see what shows up before commit/push.

 
HTH,
Ann

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Hi Jozef,
Thank you for your feedback. Currently, you can run the analysis on the entire solution through the analysis settings of C#, see below screenshot:

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And you can filter the issues with the following filters
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We hope this can already help.
We’re also exploring a few options to have similar results in the IDE and SonarQube Cloud. I’ll keep you updated on our progress.
Best regards,
Farah.