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Solution-wide analysis

Last modified: 26 May 2024

JetBrains Rider's solution-wide analysis enables two related but distinct features:

  • Solution-wide errors/warnings monitor, which lets you constantly keep track of all errors/warnings in your solution: both compiler errors/warnings and errors/warnings detected by JetBrains Rider’s own inspections. This feature works together with the design-time code inspection and brings two advantages:

    • You do not have to open every file to make sure that your solution does not contain errors/warnings.

    • If you delete a public member or change its visibility, the code in the current file can still be correct, but what if this member is used somewhere else in the solution? For example, suppose that you changed the visibility of a member from public to internal, assuming that it was only used inside the current project. At this stage, JetBrains Rider finds no errors in the current file. Then, you switch on solution-wide analysis, and actually there are errors. You can jump to the next error in solution and find out that someone uses this member from another project in your solution.

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    You can choose to monitor only errors or both errors and warnings in solution-wide analysis.

  • Solution-wide code inspections, which help find issues that can only be detected by analysing the whole solution (unused public types and members, unassigned public fields, suspicious type conversions and so on). When solution-wide analysis is enabled, issues detected by the solution-wide inspections are highlighted in the opened files in the same way as other issues, and they also appear in the Inspection Results window when you run code inspection in specific scope.

Note that solution-wide analysis doesn't monitor errors in projects that are not built in the current solution configuration.

JetBrains Rider: Solution-wide analysis doesn't monitor errors in projects that are not built