Roslyn Analyzers vs SonarQube for .NET: Which Do You Need? (video)

Roslyn analyzers run in your build and IDE; SonarQube aggregates quality across projects with gates and dashboards. Compare setup, feedback, and coverage, and see when to use both.

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Roslyn Analyzers vs SonarQube for .NET: Which Do You Need?. Here's the short version.

Roslyn analyzers and SonarQube are often compared as if they compete, but they answer different questions. Roslyn analyzers ask “is this line of code a problem?” while a developer is typing or building.

Roslyn analyzers in one paragraph. Roslyn analyzers plug into the C# compiler. Microsoft’s .NET analyzers ship with the SDK.

SonarQube in one paragraph. SonarQube is a code quality and security platform. It analyses projects in CI, stores results on a server or in the cloud, tracks issues and coverage over time.

Side-by-side comparison. Where feedback appears — Roslyn: IDE and build output. Setup — Roslyn: already in the .NET SDK, or a NuGet package. SonarQube: a scanner step in CI plus a server or cloud project. History and trends — Roslyn: none built in. SonarQube: issue history, technical debt, and coverage trends. Gating merges — Roslyn: treat warnings as errors in the build. SonarQube: quality gates on new code.

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