Finding and installing analyzers

There are quite a few code analyzers on GitHub. A quick search returns 28 possible C# code analyzers out of 72 repository results. A few of these seem to be student projects. Check those out too; there is some very clever code in some of them. As for this recipe, we will be working with CodeCracker for C# to demonstrate how to install an analyzer from a NuGet package. 

Getting ready

All that you will be doing is downloading a NuGet package for your project. Other than that, there is nothing you specifically need to do in order to get ready.

How to do it...

1. Start off by creating a new console application. You can call it whatever you like. In my example, I simply called it DiagAnalyzerDemo.

2. From the Tools menu, select NuGet Package Manager and then Manage NuGet Packages for Solution....

 

3. In the Browse tab, search for Code-Cracker. The results should return the codecracker.CSharp NuGet package. Check the project you want to apply the NuGet package to and click on...