2024 Visual Expert News

How to Set Code Inspection Profiles [Featured]

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.

code profile levels
  • Access Code Inspection Settings
  • Understand Profile Expectations
  • Use a predefined profile
  • Create a Custom Profile
  • Integrate with Automation Servers (Git/Jenkins/other tools supporting command line execution)
  • Review code inspection results in a continuous integration platform
Visual Expert 2024, New Feature, PowerBuilder, Code Profiles, Code Inspection Levels, Code Inspection Settings
List of Code Profiles [Quality Check Levels]

List of Code Profiles [Quality Check Levels]

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.

Visual Expert 2024, New Feature, PowerBuilder, Code Profiles, Code Inspection Levels, Code Inspection Settings
JUnit Sample Output

Generating Code Inspection Reports in JUnit and JSON formats

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.

Visual Expert 2024, PowerBuilder, Code Inspection, Code Inspection Reports, Code Inspection Settings
Check Code Issues before Migrating to PowerBuilder 2022

Streamlining Migration to PowerBuilder 2022

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 2023, PowerBuilder 2022, PowerBuilder Migration
Check Code Rules before Migrating to PowerBuilder 2022

Rules for Migrating to PowerBuilder 2022 and higher

Discover the code inspection rules crucial for Visual Expert prior to migrating to PowerBuilder 2022. Take note of specific features or rules that might not align with newer versions when upgrading PowerBuilder to 2022 or beyond.

Visual Expert 2023, PowerBuilder 2022, PowerBuilder Migration
Quick Search Functionality

New Quick Search Feature

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.

Visual Expert 2024, Quick Search Functionality, New Search Feature
Set max storage limit for old code analysis

Update/Manage Hard Drive Space Automatically

This article helps Visual Expert users understand how to manage their hard disk space effectively. It explains how to automatically delete old VE code analysis, when the data storage reaches a certain limit.

Visual Expert, Settings, HDD Space Management, Set Max Limit, Optimize Disc Space
Labeling Data Model Diagrams

How to Add Comments in a Visual Expert Diagram

Know how to add comments to a Visual Expert diagram and make it more informative, including two options for labeling portions and saving the diagram in various formats.

Visual Expert, Check Comments, Add Comments, Code Diagrams, Code Documentation
Change Connection Settings

Edit Project Connection Settings

This article will guide you through changing project connection settings in Visual Expert, including connection timeout, connection string, and more.

Visual Expert, Code Analysis, Connection Settings, Manage Project
Rename UI Context Folder

Visual Expert Freezing or not Responding Solutions

Learn about the troubleshooting methods for instances when Visual Expert (VE) becomes unresponsive or freezes during operation. There are four approaches to address the issue.

Visual Expert, Configuration, Technical Support, Freezing Solution