Installation

The steps you need to install SonarQube for Visual Studio in your IDE.

SonarQube for Visual Studio is available for Visual Studio version 2026 & 2022. It can be installed directly from your IDE’s Marketplace..

Since March 1, 2022, SonarLint for Visual Studio 2017 has not been supported. After SonarLint for Visual Studio 8.0, no new features will be added to SonarLint for Visual Studio 2019. This means that there will not be any new updates to these versions.

Critical bugs will be addressed in SonarLint for Visual Studio 2019 for a period of 6 months after April, 2024. We encourage users to take advantage of the latest enhancements by updating to SonarQube for Visual Studio 2022.

Instructions

To install SonarQube for Visual Studio from within Visual Studio:

1. From Visual Studio, go to Extensions > Manage Extensions and search SonarQube for Visual Studio.

2. Select SonarQube for Visual Studio and click Download.

The extension will be installed after all instances of Visual Studio have been closed.

SonarQube for Visual Studio needs a Java Runtime (JRE) to operate and will use its own JRE if you don’t provide one.

• To specify a JRE, go to Extensions > SonarQube > Options… > SonarQube > General > Java Home, add the path to your JRE, and restart your IDE to apply the setting.

First taste of SonarQube for Visual Studio

Now that you have SonarQube for Visual Studio installed, open or create a new project containing source files in a programming language SonarQube for Visual Studio can analyze out of the box. See the Rules and languages page for a table languages that work with your IDE.

For example in C#, you can copy-paste this code snippet into your file and have a look at what SonarQube for Visual Studio returns in the Error List:

// TODO: Say hello to SonarQube for Visual Studio!

Connect to your server

Connect SonarQube for VS Code to your instance of SonarQube Server, SonarQube Cloud, or SonarQube Community Build to expand your analysis capabilities and share quality profiles with your team. See the article about connected mode Benefits, and the Connected mode setup page for full instructions to get going.