Exporting the VS 2010 Code Analysis reports

Question

Hi,

Is there any option to export the warnigns\errors reported by VS Code Analyzer.

I dont seee any export to excel option similar to Code Metrics results. Is there any way to customize the results window

to have the option to export to an excel or notepad? can i have  other alternative?

Answer 1

The simplest way is to just copy/paste the errors tool window from Visual Studio to Excel. Just do ctrl-A, ctrl-c and then paste into a blank sheet.

It's also relatively simple to convert the xml output of Code Analysis to a HTML table using XSLT and open that in Excel.

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Answer 2

Hi Jesse,

Is there any way to customize the errors tool window of VS 2010 for additional options like export?

Answer 3

Just like anything in Visual Studio, it should be extensible using the Visual Studio SDK. It's probably easiest to add a custom context menu item. You'll need to buidl your own VSPackage and register the command in there. Then through the API you can access the Error list. I'm not sure if filtering can be done easily, but exporting it shouldn't be too hard.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6240543/extending-the-visual-studio-2010-editor-by-adding-a-context-menu-item-to-manipul

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