📈Analyzing your Mod

Here's a list of analyzer diagnostics.

Analyzers, in .NET, are tools that allow you to check the quality of your code and to fix common design pitfalls in your code. These fixes typically tailor the use of better features or the removal of unnecessary code.

Similarly, we provide you with analyzers that detect the usage of non-Nitrocid methods and classes and provide you fixes that make use of Nitrocid methods and classes as good alternatives. These analyzers are applicable only to Nitrocid mods.

We provide you two types of analyzers for your Nitrocid mods:

  • Visual Studio-based analyzers: They analyze your mods while you're working on them in Visual Studio.

  • Standalone analyzers: They analyze your mod code outside Visual Studio.

In this page, we'll give you instructions on how to install such analyzers. Choose the analyzer type based on your preferences.

Installation

There are two types of Nitrocid analyzers as highlighted above. This section shows you how to analyze your code with either Visual Studio and the standalone analyzer. The mod analyzer package found in the release contains both the standalone analyzer and the Visual Studio-based analyzer.

Visual Studio

In order to install the Visual Studio-based analyzer for Nitrocid mods, follow the below steps:

  1. Open Visual Studio 2022 and open Extensions > Manage Extensions....

  2. Search for Aptivi.NKSAnalyzers

  3. Once it gets downloaded, close all Visual Studio windows until this window appears

  4. Click on Modify and wait until this window shows up

  5. Start working on your mod, and you'll see NKS analyzers.

Standalone Analyzer

In case you can't use Visual Studio-based analyzer for your mods, you can use the standalone analyzer. To use it, follow the steps:

  1. Open the command prompt

  2. Go to the directory where the standalone analyzer is located. Use cd to change the directory.

  3. Run dotnet Nitrocid.StandaloneAnalyzer.dll path/to/mod.sln

Diagnostics

The following code analyzers are shipped, with links to each page:

Currently, there are no analyzers which generate errors yet. However, we'll plan to add more analyzers.

It's vital to follow the analyzer recommendations to get the best mod code according to the standards.

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