{"id":354886,"date":"2023-06-29T14:40:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T13:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jetbrains.com\/?post_type=dotnet&p=354886"},"modified":"2025-08-06T15:54:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:54:21","slug":"elevating-csharp-code-quality-with-qodana-a-journey-towards-perfection","status":"publish","type":"dotnet","link":"https:\/\/blog.jetbrains.com\/en\/dotnet\/2023\/06\/29\/elevating-csharp-code-quality-with-qodana-a-journey-towards-perfection","title":{"rendered":"Elevating C# Code Quality with Qodana: A Journey Towards Perfection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

JetBrains IDEs have always been renowned for their powerful static code analysis supporting a wide range of languages<\/a>.\u00a0With the release of\u00a0Qodana<\/a>,\u00a0we are unifying that knowledge in a central code quality platform that is working at the heart of every development process\u00a0\u2013\u00a0your favorite CI\/CD tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Triggered by a commit or pull request, Qodana can generate comprehensive analysis reports (SARIF<\/a>) about all discovered code quality and security issues. Qodana makes those reports easily accessible, not only to a team of developers or QA engineers but also to security managers and legal\/compliance departments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Only recently, Qodana has made its first steps into our lineup of .NET tools, and as you might guess, it comes with remarkable integration for Rider. The analysis itself is based on an old acquaintance, namely InspectCode<\/em>, which you might know from other blog posts like Establishing a zero-warning policy with ReSharper\u2019s solution-wide analysis<\/em><\/a> or ReSharper Command-Line Tools \u2013 Cross-Platform and Global Tools<\/em><\/a>. InspectCode runs the same analysis that discovers code issues in Rider and ReSharper. However, working on your CI\/CD agent provides the substantial benefit that the Solution-Wide Analysis<\/a> no longer has to run on your local machine, which translates to a better development experience, responsiveness, and battery life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

<\/i>Try Qodana for free<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you want to see a Qodana report live and in action, head over to the public reports of FluentAssertions<\/a> or NUKE<\/a>. If you want to try Qodana on your own project and learn more about its professional capabilities in various CI\/CD environments and Rider itself, stay with us for the next sections!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Setting up Qodana for .NET projects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Qodana runs in a Docker container, so you should have Docker installed locally and in your CI\/CD environment. For the local experience, it is also recommended to install the Qodana CLI<\/a> (although you can also invoke Docker directly<\/a>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n