Writing Diagnostic Analyzers

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Creating, debugging, and executing an analyzer project in Visual Studio
• Creating a symbol analyzer to report issues about symbol declarations
• Creating a syntax node analyzer to report issues about language syntax
• Creating a syntax tree analyzer to analyze source file and report syntax issues
• Creating a method body analyzer to analyze whole method and report issues
• Creating a compilation analyzer to analyze whole compilation and report issues
• Writing unit tests for an analyzer project
• Publishing the NuGet package and VSIX for an analyzer project