Demonstration The capability of the plugin is demonstrated on Nemo
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Price 4,500 € per instance of Sonar and per year, including upgrade, maintenance and support.

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Version 1.0.1 - Released July 15, 2010
Compatibility with Sonar 2.2		 Sonar 2.2+ Release notes Download
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Features

This plugin enables to perform objective and automated Visual Basic 6 code quality and standards reviews against pre-defined rule sets and coding best practices. It also generates standard code metrics like number of lines, density of comments or complexity.

This plugin benefits from the power of the Open Source Sonar platform by reusing all available core services : Violations drilldown, Hotspots, Code viewer with syntax highlighting, TimeMachine, Clouds, Coding rule profile management… The plugin can also be used along with the SonarSource Views plugin to aggregate Visual Basic projects and easily manage a portfolio with millions lines of code.

Key features of the plugin are :

  • 25 coding rules available
  • Drill down from project to code
  • Ability to track parsing issues by using rules violations
  • Excellent performances, analyzes millions of lines of code in minutes
  • Deactivation of false positive violations using the tag ‘NOSONAR in VB source code
  • Easy usage : download the jar, start Sonar and launch mvn sonar:sonar

Technology

SonarSource and Obeo have combined their expertise to develop this Sonar extension to analyze VisualBasic 6 : Obeo brings its parsing and rules engine technology (Obeo Agility) while SonarSource integrates this into a Sonar plugin and adds the glue to cover other quality axes.

About Obeo

Obeo is a leading company in the field of model driven software approaches based on Eclipse. Obeo provides solutions that help large organizations to design, develop and modernize automatically their softwares assets.

Promoted to the rank of Eclipse Strategic Member, the company is strongly involved in Open Source communities. Obeo delivers outstanding products and services like Obeo Designer or Obeo Agility, contributing to its customers success.