Visual Studio
Visual Studio is a comprehensive IDE for .NET and C++ developers on Windows developed by Microsoft. This section explains how you can use Qodana in Visual Studio for:
Exploring Qodana reports downloaded from Qodana Cloud
Before you start
Make sure that you have a Qodana Cloud project, and this project has at least one uploaded analysis report related to the project opened locally in your Visual Studio.
Download and install Qodana as a component of JetBrains ReSharper.
UI overview
In Visual Studio, navigate to Extensions | ReSharper | Qodana, and then click Show Qodana Panel.
This will open the Qodana Analysis panel in the lower part of your Visual Studio UI.
Log in to Qodana Cloud
On the Qodana Analysis panel, click Log In to Qodana. This will open the Options window.
Log in to Qodana Cloud using the Log In button. This will redirect you to Qodana Cloud to complete the login process.
To log in to your Qodana Self-hosted instance, check Enable Qodana Self-Hosted and then in the Qodana server URL enter the URL to it.
Link and download report
Once you logged in to Qodana Cloud, you need to link your local project to a project in Qodana Cloud. To do this, open the Qodana Analysis panel and then click the Link project link. This will open the Options window containing Qodana Cloud projects that can be linked to your local project.
Here, select the Qodana Cloud project and then click the Link button.
If you cannot find the required project in the list, click the Other project button and enter the ID of your project. You can take this ID from the Qodana Cloud URL according to the pattern https://qodana.cloud/projects/ProjectID/reports/ReportID.
Explore Qodana reports
You can explore analysis reports of Qodana using the Qodana Analysis panel of the Visual Studio UI.
On this panel, you can extend problem categories and then click specific problems to navigate to code fragments containing such problems.
The upper part of the Qodana Analysis panel contains buttons that let you refresh and close the report, as well as group problems by various categories. Here, you can use the Show Preview button for viewing code fragments in the Qodana Analysis panel.