PVS-Studio for Visual Studio Code

The PVS-Studio extension for Visual Studio Code allows you to run analysis and work with the static analyzer report.

PVS-Studio is a static code analyzer and SAST (static application security testing) tool that is available for C and C++ desktop and embedded development, C#, Java, Go, JavaScript, and TypeScript under Windows, Linux, and macOS.

A detailed description of how to work with this extension is available here.

Requirements

To use this extension you need a license key and PVS-Studio installed on your machine. You can download the analyzer here.

If you don't have a license key yet, you can get a trial license here.

What's New

• PVS-Studio Java analyzer now complies with the OWASP Benchmark for Java, a benchmark for software vulnerability detection tools.

• The Java analyzer now supports projects that use JDK 25.

• The Go analyzer now supports projects that use Go 1.27.

• The PVS-Studio_Cmd.exe utility for the MSBuild project analysis can now save the project analysis configuration in the JSON analyzer report. The fullhtml report format now allows grouping analyzer messages by analysis configuration when an HTML report is generated using the PlogConverter.exe. Learn more about other report formats in the documentation.