What's new in Project Analyzer v10.3

Old improvements in v9

• Analyze Visual Basic 2008. Project Analyzer v9.0 supports Visual Basic versions 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2008.
• 52 new code review rules. Find new bugs in your old code! See list below.
• <Flaw finder> code review rules help locate logical mistakes and omissions and prevent future errors.
• Create source print-outs in PDF. Produce interactive PDF source documentation where the reader can surf your code via links. Get cool new PDF files from Project Printer and as PDF print-outs.
• Pseudo-code COM and DLL view. View the interface to library files as regular VB code. Ent
• Hex viewer for binary files.
• Analyze directory tree of source code files. It is no longer required to have a complete project (.vbproj or .sln) to analyze source files. Useful for analyzing codebehind classes of web sites.
• Classify modules to understand legacy projects. The Module list report groups modules into Definitions, Interface, Abstract class, Concrete class, Stateless class, Dialog, Standard module and the like.
• VB.NET 2008 compatibility check for VB6 code. Ent

Other improvements in v9

• Report enhancements:
  • Variables and constants report rewritten. Constants display their actual value in addition to their formula.
  • Variable deadness status added to Variable use report.
  • File LOC and age added to File sizes and dates report.
  • Library base address list added to Library report for optimizing your DLLs.
  • Statistics on names added to Dictionary report.
  • PDF reports rewritten.
• Code review enhancements:
  • Enhanced rules for "Empty procedure", "Unused file", "Dead parameter", "Excess Scope", "Microsoft.VisualBasic imported".
  • Option to Ignore dead Property Get/Set/Let if another accessor is alive. Allow read/write properties also when either read or write is currently out of use.
  • Option to independently switch on/off the following code review rules: "Dead parameter", "ByVal parameter not read".
• Find window: Search for "Code or String". Search results reformatted for readability.
• Print code: New option "Bracket structures" emphasizes decision and loop structures.
• Auto-fix preserves line continuation characters (_) when possible. Auto-fix can split long lines, move end-of-line comments to full-line comments and add a Dim statement before a ReDim if required.
• Image version and compile time displayed for library files and executables.
• Unicode support. Load international source in any codepage (character set).
• Analysis improvements: Single-line Type and Enum blocks. Single-line classic VB declarations such as Dim x:Dim y or Sub x:End Sub. Generic Structure and Interface (Of T). Time literals #11:25:00#.
• Late-bound and overloaded call resolution is improved a lot, leading to better accuracy with projects using these techniques.
• Performance improvements for large analyses.

Old improvements in v8

Project metrics
VARSgm Global and module-level vars
VARSloc Local variables
ENUMSZ Average Enum size
ENUMR Enum ratio
Rc Reuse of constants
TREADS Total variable reads
TWRITES Total variable writes
TRW Total variable reads+writes
DATADENS Data access density
IOg% Global I/O ratio
maxDCALLT Max depth of call tree
maxSCALLT Max size of call tree

MOOD2 object-oriented metrics
OHEF Operation hiding effectiveness
AHEF Attribute hiding effectiveness
IIF Internal inheritance factor
PPF Parametric polymorphism factor

Class metrics
LCOM4 Lack of cohesion of methods
TCCi, TCCl Tight class cohesion
LCCi, LCCl Loose class cohesion

Procedure metrics
IOg Global I/O
IOp Parameter I/O
IOvars Input and output variables
SCALLT Size of call tree

Variable metrics
READS Number of reads from variable
WRITES Number of writes to variable
RW Number of reads and writes
FLOWS Data flows into/out of variable
LENV Length of variable name
VARUSR Variable users

• Analyze VB.NET 2005 code (plus VB 3.0-6.0, 2002, 2003 and VBA).
• Enterprise Diagrams visualize your system. Get complete dependency diagrams, inheritance diagrams, call diagrams, data diagrams, object instantiation diagrams etc. More Ent
• Visio diagramming. Send Enterprise Diagrams to Microsoft Visio. Ent
• Project Graph news: Instantiation tree shows where classes are being instantiated. Data declaration tree shows where classes, structures, interfaces and forms are being used as data types. Pro, Ent
• 20 new reports plus improved reporting to html/pdf/rtf/mht files. Find reusable subsystems and bad non-cohesive classes! Report list below.
• Print code with syntax highlighting. Produce professional multi-column print-outs in color. More
  Sample print-outs: Color, Monochrome.
• Export code as HTML or RTF with syntax highlighting.
• Export metrics as XML. Ent
• Project Metrics supports a total of 180 different metrics. See additions on the right. New metrics reports and XML export. Ent
• Analyze constants and enums for duplicates and bugs.
• List and navigate data types, modules, procedures, variables, parameters and constants.
• New dead code analyses: Dead Enum constant. Dead Type field. Type field written, not read. Type field read, not written. Variable read, not written. Return value not set. Unused COM library file (COM requires Ent). Remove unused code and detect logical flaws!
• New code review rules: Too many uncommented lines, Pass ByRef, ByRef parameter returns a value, ByVal parameter written to, ByRef parameter read only - consider ByVal, Initializer missing, Optional parameter missing default value, Assignment to self.
• "In" and "out" parameters detected for procedures.
• Improved analysis of special cases such as default members, constructor calls, overloads, enumerators.
• Usability improvements: Bookmarks, mouse wheel support, line numbers, ...
• Visustin integration for flowcharting. Requires Visustin v3.1 or later.

Reports added in v8

• Module members report with several sub-options to list the procedures and/or variables of each module: All procedures and variables, Data input, Data output, External access, External data input, External data output, Module data, Private data, Data read access, Data write access, Properties, Procedures, Methods, Events, Constructors, Constructors and finalizers, Procedures with "out" parameters.
• Interface report lists interfaces with implementations.
• Files and projects report lists which project includes which files. It is useful for determining the use of shared files. Ent
• Super report in Super Project Analyzer lists the dead code across all your projects, as well as in which projects your code is being reused. Pro, Ent
• Variable use report lists the number of live/dead variable reads & writes. Locate potentially dead variables and logical flaws where a variable might not be properly set.
• Problem statistics report summarizes the number of problems found by code review.
• Dead code statistics report displays the amount of dead code grouped by deadness type.
• File dependency levels report lists files in their dependency order.
• Non-cohesive classes report finds classes to split up.
• Subsystem report finds reusable subsystems in a program.