Microsoft have been partnering with SonarSource for almost two years to bring SonarQube to .NET developers and to make it easy to analyze MSBuild and Java projects from Visual Studio Team Services, TFS and Visual Studio. The partnership, and Team Services extensibility, have now matured to the point that we have jointly decided that it was time for...

Over the last few months we have been steadily building up the capabilities of the Maven and Gradle build tasks to offer insights into code quality through popular code analysis tools. We are pleased to announce additional much-requested features that we are bringing to these tasks, which will make it easier to understand and control technical debt...

A few sprints ago we enabled SonarQube and PMD analysis on the Maven and Gradle tasks. We continue to add code analysis tooling to the Java build tasks with Checkstyle support for Gradle, and - in a few days - for Maven. Checkstyle Analysis Checkstyle is the analyzer of choice for enforcing a coding standard. It is a highly configurable analyzer...

See also SonarQube documentation available from Analyzing with SonarQube Extension for VSTS/TFS Goal: Let developers fix issues early Team leads and managers spend time drilling into the SonarQube dashboard, setting up quality gates and monitoring technical debt. Have a look at the publicly available SonarQube dashboard for the Roslyn project to ...

SonarSource have officially released SonarQube C# Plugin 4.4 and version 1.1 of the SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild. There have been no updates to the scanner documentation in this release, other that updating the version number to make it clear they relate to version 1.1 of the SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild. As usual, we’ve fixed a few bugs (see he...

Note: a more recent documentation is available from Analyzing with SonarQube Extension for VSTS/TFS In Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server you can cause a build to fail if the code does not meet the conditions imposed by a SonarQube quality gate. This post describes how to configure this when using SonarQube 5.3 and earlier, and...

SonarSource have officially released SonarQube C# Plugin 4.4 and version 1.1 of the SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild. There have been no updates to the scanner documentation in this release, other that updating the version number to make it clear they relate to version 1.1 of the SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild. As usual, we’ve fixed a few bugs (see he...