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How to: Set Code Analysis Properties for C/C++ Projects

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You can configure which rules the code analysis tool uses to analyze the code in each configuration of your project. In addition, you can direct code analysis to suppress warnings from code that was generated and added to your project by a third-party tool.

Code Analysis Property Page

The Code Analysis property page contains all code analysis configuration settings for an MSBuild project. To open the code analysis property page for a project in Solution Explorer, right-click the project and then click Properties. Next, expand Configuration Properties and select the Code Analysis tab.

Project Configuration and Platform

The Configuration list and Platform list at the top of the window lets you apply different code analysis settings to different project configuration and platform combinations. For example, you can direct code analysis to apply one set of rules to your project for debug builds and a different set for release builds.

Enabling Code Analysis

You can enable code analysis for your project by toggling the Enable Microsoft Code Analysis and Enable Clang-Tidy options, and further configure if it runs on build by selecting Enable Code Analysis on Build. In combination with the Configuration list, you could, for example, decide to disable Code Analysis for debug builds and enable it for release builds.

Code analysis is designed to help you improve the quality of your code and avoid common pitfalls. Therefore, consider carefully whether to disable code analysis. It is usually better to disable rule sets, individual rules, or individual checks that you do not want applied to your project.

CMake configuration

In CMake projects, change the value of the enableMicrosoftCodeAnalysis and enableClangTidyCodeAnalysis keys within CMakeSettings.json to enable or disable code analysis. See Using Clang-Tidy in Visual Studio for more information.

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