Frequently asked questions on the C# Plugins Ecosystem:
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- Home-made C# parser: no need to install SourceMonitor anymore, all the metrics are computed by the brand-new Sonar C# Core plugin. This opens lots of possibilities for the future, like being able to create our own C# rules.
- Better support of copy-paste detection, based on the new C# parser
- Maven is no more required for execution: assuming that you're solution has been compiled, you can run a Sonar analysis just with the Sonar Runner
- Java 6 is no more required for execution: the plugins run fine on a Java 5 VM
- Native support of Sonar way to handle multi-module: a .NET solution that contains C# projects will be considered like a standard root project with modules in Sonar. Each tool such as FxCop, StyleCop or Mono Gendarme will be run on each of these Visual Studio projects. With the dotnet plugin version 0.6, except for Gendarme, tools were launched only once for a whole Visual Studio solution.
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Size & complexity metrics are now computed by the C# Core Plugin, so they will definitely change (results will better reflect the reality, hopefully). As a consequence, this will also have impacts on some other metrics, like the rule compliance for instance. |
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