Platform Specific Analyzer

Warning

This docs page is outdated and the Platform Specific Analyzers have been removed. Improvements are continually being made to the Visual Studio development experience, so please ensure you are on the latest version.

When writing version or platform adaptive code, the developers should ensure that code checks for presence of API before calling it. The platform specific analyzer is a Roslyn Analyzer that can parse through code and suggest fixes where appropriate.

Try it in the sample app

Installation

The analyzer is available both as a nuget package

• References > Manage NuGet References > install Microsoft.Toolkit.Uwp.PlatformSpecificAnalyzer

Sample Output

The analyzer automatically kicks in when code is opened in Visual Studio and supports both C# and Visual Basic

C#

Visual Basic

Sample Project

You can see this in action in the Windows Community Toolkit Sample App.

Requirements

Device family	Universal, 10.0.16299.0 or higher
Namespace	Microsoft.Toolkit.Uwp.PlatformSpecificAnalyzer
NuGet package	Microsoft.Toolkit.Uwp.PlatformSpecificAnalyzer

API

• Platform Specific Analyzer

Related Topics

• Platform Specific Differences Generator