Introducing the Alpha Version of VE Web - tailored for distributed teams and flexible workflows.
The VE Web is a web-based interface enabling remote access to Visual Expert's features for code analysis, report generation, and project management without needing the desktop application. It supports collaboration and account management from any location with internet access.
Visual Expert 2024 is now available for download, offering a suite of new features designed to elevate PowerBuilder, Oracle, and SQL Server development.
Highlights include PowerBuilder code profiling to identify and optimize slow code, customizable code inspection profiles for tailored reviews, and Quick Search for efficient navigation. The new version also supports a seamless migration to PowerBuilder 2022 and higher, comprehensive code inspection reports in JSON and JUnit formats for DevOps integration, along with significant performance updates.
Code inspection profiles help developers achieve a technical balance between strict quality standards and practical considerations in their development workflow.
Learn how to customize code quality/security profiles and integrate them with your DevOps platform to streamline continuous code inspection.
Explore how Visual Expert automates complex tasks like index management, execution tree analysis, and the identification of bottlenecks within SQL Server databases. Visual Expert's in-depth database analysis and prioritization of slow and frequently used objects can significantly enhance database optimization efforts.
Discover how the combined use of Visual Expert and Toad for Oracle will enable you to achieve unrivalled efficiency in the maintenance and optimization of Oracle PL/SQL code. In-depth analysis of code, performance and dependencies, combined with SQL optimization, enables analysts, developers and DBAs to collaborate seamlessly and increase productivity.
Effectively manage your Visual Expert repository by either increasing capacity or removing unnecessary projects to stay within the lines of code limit.
Visual Expert's Missing Index feature identifies and recommends indexes to optimize database performance, reducing query execution times and enhancing efficiency.
Easily manage your SQL Server Local Instances by using the command line. Start, stop, and retrieve information about your databases with the 'SqlLocalDB.exe' tool, and streamline your workflow for more efficient database management.
Follow the comprehensive installation guide for the Visual Expert Web. It provides step-by-step instructions to IT administrators and developers on how to install and configure the necessary software components and settings on a Windows server.
Set up Visual Expert on a single machine with multiple users by creating local database instances for each user and verifying them through system settings.
To provide a comprehensive view of your application's structure, VE creates virtual elements that represent the elements called up by your code but not physically embedded in your project. Check out this tutorial to understand the importance of virtual elements and learn how to identify them.
Learn how to identify duplicate functions with Visual Expert to improve the efficiency and maintainability of your code. Follow this Step by Step tutorial to learn how to use this tool and optimize the quality and performance of your application.
Visual Expert generates diagrams for code visualization. You can customize them and add comments to enrich them and facilitate collaboration between team members.
This guide explains how to automatically delete old VE code analysis when the data storage reaches a certain limit. Use this option to ensure that you will always have enough space for Visual Expert to complete the analyses you have scheduled or launched manually.
Visual Expert 2024 now features a Quick Search functionality that displays results in the form of a simple list in the treeview. You can easily locate and access the text you are looking for by using the various markers added to the source code view.
Discover the code inspection rules specific to migration to PowerBuilder 2022. These rules complement the PB Migration Wizard, to detect features in your application that may not be supported by the upgrade to PB 2022 and beyond.
Visual Expert now facilitates the upgrade to PowerBuilder 2022. It takes into account the list of unsupported features published by Appeon and identifies the changes to be made in your application during an in-depth analysis of your code.
Visual Expert can now export code review results in JUnit and JSON formats, enabling developers to view high-level results directly from any DevOps platform supporting this format, without the need to switch back to Visual Expert.
Developers can define code inspection thresholds to customize code review results. Changing code review expectations can highly influence analysis results.
Code Inspection Profiles enable developers to fine-tune their approach towards code review based on project requirements. This ensures a balance between code quality and security, and practical considerations.
![List of Code Profiles [Quality Check Levels]](/images/code-profile-steps.png)