Installing CppDepend Visual Studio Plugin
Analyze your C, C++ and Java code directly from Visual Studio 2022, 2019, 2017, 2015, 2013, 2012 and 2010.
Installing the CppDepend add-in for Visual Studio
- •Download the CppDepend installation zip file.
- •To install CppDepend, just unzip the files in a private application folder on your machine.
Don't install files in%ProgramFiles%\CppDepend. This will cause problems due to Windows protection. - •Start CppDepend.VisualStudioExtension.Installer.exe or start VisualCppDepend and install the VS add-in from the start page.
- •Click the Install button for the right Visual Studio version.
CppDepend is 100% integrated in Visual Studio 2022, 2019, 2017, 2015, 2013, 2012 and 2010. If you prefer, you can use the standalone VisualCppDepend UI that collaborates with Visual Studio.
Analyzing a Visual Studio solution
- •Start Visual Studio after having installed the CppDepend add-in.
- •Open the Visual Studio solution containing the code to analyze.
- •Click the greyed CppDepend circle status (bottom right of the Visual Studio window)
OR
click the menu CppDepend > Attach new CppDepend project to current Visual Studio solution. - •A CppDepend project can be attached to several Visual Studio solutions.
- •This is useful if you wish to analyze several C/C++ projects compiled with several Visual Studio solutions.
- •The benefit will be the ability to navigate across several Visual Studio solutions opened in several Visual Studio instances.
- •The dialog opened has been populated with the Visual Studio solution. Here you can add more projects compiled from other solutions.
- •Launch the CppDepend analysis. It will just take a few minutes to analyze your code base for the first time.
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