Using a custom rule set

The built-in rule sets that come with Visual Studio cover a variety of usage scenarios and provide a way to use the Code Analysis tool in your projects immediately. Of course, depending on the complexity and needs of your project, the default rules may need to be customized and combined, as this recipe will demonstrate.

Getting ready

We are going to continue with the project we created in the Analyzing your C++ code recipe. You will need Visual Studio Professional or higher in order to modify rule sets.

How to do it…

To use a custom rule set, perform the following steps:

1. Open the project created in the previous recipe.

2. Open the AnalyzeThis.cpp file and add the following highlighted code:

   # include "AnalyzeThis.h"
   
   int x = 0;
   

3. Right-click on the project (not solution) in Solution Explorer and select Properties. The following screenshot will appear:

   

4. In the drop-down list indicated in the preceding screenshot, you may select a different individual rule set or pick and choose...