2024 Visual Expert News

Learn how to use the Share View and Load View functionalities in Visual Expert to enhance team collaboration, ensure consistent project analysis, and streamline workflows.

Check out how to fix the "VE Search does not work" issue in Visual Expert by resolving database permission errors, installing SQL Server macros, and resetting security configurations.

Discover how to use Advanced and Quick Search in VE Web to efficiently locate code elements and enhance navigation with hierarchy views.

Discover how Visual Expert helped modularize an Oracle PL/SQL application, reducing code complexity, operational risks linked to regressions and bugs, while improving maintainability, deployment speed and overall performance.

The Code Documentation in VE Web lets you effectively navigate and utilize its tools for managing PowerBuilder applications and databases. It provides a breakdown of key components such as PBLs, tables, triggers, etc. to streamline application monitoring, data management, and code review.

A CRUD matrix helps developers to analyze database operations that use the Create, Read, Update, and Delete method. This interactive version, generated by Visual Expert Web, enables them to drill down directly to the analyzed components in the project, making it easier to assess the impact of changes, optimize database management and streamline code maintenance.

Visual Expert Web's source code explorer lets developers easily navigate between application elements and visualize their source code. The tree structure and quick search also save significant time in code understanding, troubleshooting and impact analysis.

The Code Explorer in Visual Expert Web helps developers efficiently navigate, analyze, and manage their codebase using a tree-like structure, improving productivity and facilitating team collaboration.

The Source Code Explorer in Visual Expert Web allows developers to navigate, analyze, and manage raw source code efficiently with features like a tree view, easy search, and impact analysis, streamlining troubleshooting and code comprehension.

Learn how to use Visual Expert Web's object dependency matrix to understand relationships between components, predict the impact of changes, streamline code maintenance and debug complex projects faster.

Discover how to quickly improve the performance of Transact-SQL code thanks to the many tools provided by Visual Expert for SQL Server: identification of missing indexes, slow or frequently used objects, identification of bottlenecks in an execution tree, etc.

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.

A Visual Expert license lets you analyze a predefined number of lines of code.
Find out how to increase the capacity of your repository or remove unnecessary projects so you can continue to analyze your projects.

Visual Expert identifies and recommends the creation of missing indexes to avoid full table scans, reduce query execution times and optimize database performance.

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.