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This is a recommended maintenance update for Visual Lint 6.0 and 6.5. The following changes are included:

• Fixed an MSBuild parsing bug which was preventing Visual Studio system include folders from being read in some circumstances.
  
• Fixed a bug which could prevent the VisualLintGui code editor determining the location of PC-lint Plus indirect files in order to open them from a context menu.
  
• Updated the values of _MSC_VER and _MSC_FULL_VER in the PC-lint Plus indirect file co-rb-vs2017.lnt for compatibility with Visual Studio 2017 v15.8.3. This change is needed to fix a fatal error in yvals_core.h if _MSC_VER is less than 1915.
  
• Added a PC-lint Plus compatible version of lib-stl.lnt to the installer as it is not currently supplied with PC-lint Plus.
  
• Added additional indirect files needed for analysing Visual Studio 2012, 2013 and 2015 codebases with PC-lint Plus 1.2 to the installer.
  
• If a project intermediate files folder does not currently exist, it will not be referenced with a -i (include folder) directive on generated PC-lint or PC-lint Plus command lines. This avoids extraneous 686 warnings "(Warning -- option '-i' is suspicious: absolute path is not accessible)".
  
  Note that if build artifacts (e.g. .tlh or .tli files) are required for analysis purposes, analysing without the intermediate folder will most likely result in analysis errors. In this case, performing a build and re-analysing the affected files/projects should fix it.
  

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Products, the Universe and Everything from Products, the Universe and Everything

LintProject Pro is a command line only product which can perform a basic per-file analysis of a C/C++ codebase using PC-lint or CppCheck. In many ways it was the proof of concept for Visual Lint, and although it has served us well, it's getting a bit long in the tooth now.

For example, unlike Visual Lint Build Server Edition (which has inherited its capabilities), LintProject Pro only makes use of a single CPU core when running analysis and doesn't support current analysis tools such as PC-lint Plus.

The interfaces to the two products are however very similar as the command line interface of Visual Lint Build Server is based on that of LintProject Pro. In fact, Visual Lint Build Server Edition can do everything LintProject Pro can - along with much, much more.

As such we think it is now finally time to put LintProject Pro out to pasture, and to make that easier we are offering a migration path from LintProject Pro to Visual Lint Build Server Edition. This involves trading in each existing LintProject Pro licence purchased before 23rd October 2018 for a 25% discount on a corresponding Visual Lint Build Server Edition licence. As such LintProject Pro has now been removed from our online store.

To take advantage of the upgrade, just write to us quoting which LintProject Pro licence (or licences) you wish to trade-in.

We've tried to keep this process clear and simple. The value of the discount offered exceeds that of the LintProject Pro licence, so this is a lower cost route to obtain an equivalent PC-lint Plus compatible product than (for example) refunding any existing LintProject Pro licences and purchasing Visual Lint Build Server Edition licences at full price.

If you have any questions, just ask.

Products, the Universe and Everything from Products, the Universe and Everything

LintProject Pro is a command line only product which can perform a basic per-file analysis of a C/C++ codebase using PC-lint or CppCheck. In many ways it was the proof of concept for Visual Lint, and although it has served us well, it's getting a bit long in the tooth now.

For example, unlike Visual Lint Build Server Edition (which has inherited its capabilities), LintProject Pro only makes use of a single CPU core when running analysis and doesn't support current analysis tools such as PC-lint Plus.

The interfaces to the two products are however very similar as the command line interface of Visual Lint Build Server is based on that of LintProject Pro. In fact, Visual Lint Build Server Edition can do everything LintProject Pro can - along with much, much more.

As such we think it is now finally time to put LintProject Pro out to pasture, and to make that easier we are offering a migration path from LintProject Pro to Visual Lint Build Server Edition. This involves trading in each existing LintProject Pro licence purchased before 23rd October 2018 for a 25% discount on a corresponding Visual Lint Build Server Edition licence. As such LintProject Pro has now been removed from our online store.

To take advantage of the upgrade, just write to us quoting which LintProject Pro licence (or licences) you wish to trade-in.

We've tried to keep this process clear and simple. The value of the discount offered exceeds that of the LintProject Pro licence, so this is a lower cost route to obtain an equivalent PC-lint Plus compatible product than (for example) refunding any existing LintProject Pro licences and purchasing Visual Lint Build Server Edition licences at full price.

If you have any questions, just ask.

Products, the Universe and Everything from Products, the Universe and Everything

LintProject Pro is a command line only product which can perform a basic per-file analysis of a C/C++ codebase using PC-lint or CppCheck. In many ways it was the proof of concept for Visual Lint, and although it has served us well, it's getting a bit long in the tooth now.

For example, unlike Visual Lint Build Server Edition (which has inherited its capabilities), LintProject Pro only makes use of a single CPU core when running analysis and doesn't support current analysis tools such as PC-lint Plus.

The interfaces to the two products are however very similar as the command line interface of Visual Lint Build Server is based on that of LintProject Pro. In fact, Visual Lint Build Server Edition can do everything LintProject Pro can - along with much, much more.

As such we think it is now finally time to put LintProject Pro out to pasture, and to make that easier we are offering a migration path from LintProject Pro to Visual Lint Build Server Edition. This involves trading in each existing LintProject Pro licence purchased before 23rd October 2018 for a 25% discount on a corresponding Visual Lint Build Server Edition licence. As such LintProject Pro has now been removed from our online store.

To take advantage of the upgrade, just write to us quoting which LintProject Pro licence (or licences) you wish to trade-in.

We've tried to keep this process clear and simple. The value of the discount offered exceeds that of the LintProject Pro licence, so this is a lower cost route to obtain an equivalent PC-lint Plus compatible product than (for example) refunding any existing LintProject Pro licences and purchasing Visual Lint Build Server Edition licences at full price.

If you have any questions, just ask.

Products, the Universe and Everything from Products, the Universe and Everything

LintProject Pro is a command line only product which can perform a basic per-file analysis of a C/C++ codebase using PC-lint or CppCheck. In many ways it was the proof of concept for Visual Lint, and although it has served us well, it's getting a bit long in the tooth now. For example, unlike Visual Lint Build Server Edition (which inherited its capabilities), LintProject Pro doesn't support PC-lint Plus and only makes use of a single CPU core when running analysis. The interfaces to the two products are however very similar as the command line interface of Visual Lint Build Server is based on that of LintProject Pro. In fact, Visual Lint Build Server Edition can do everything LintProject Pro can - along with much, much more. As such we think it is now finally time to put LintProject Pro out to pasture, and to make that easier we are offering a migration path from LintProject Pro to Visual Lint Build Server Edition. This involves trading in each existing LintProject Pro licence puchased before 23rd October 2018 for a 25% discount on a corresponding Visual Lint Build Server Edition licence. As such LintProject Pro will be removed from our online store very soon. To take advantage of the upgrade, just write to us quoting which LintProject Pro licence (or licences) you wish to trade-in. We've tried to keep this process clear and simple. The value of the discount offered exceeds that of the LintProject Pro licence, so this is a lower cost route to obtain an equivalent PC-lint Plus compatible product than (for example) refunding any existing LintProject Pro licences and purchasing Visual Lint Build Server Edition licences at full price. If you have any questions, just ask.

Products, the Universe and Everything from Products, the Universe and Everything

This is a recommended maintenance update for Visual Lint 6.5. The following changes are included:

• If a "Lint" folder without the hidden attribute exists in a solution/workspace folder Visual Lint will no longer attempt to use it to store analysis results and will create a new ".visuallint" folder instead. This prevents Visual Lint from assuming that a user-created "Lint" folder is one which was created by an earlier (pre-v5.0) version of Visual Lint.
  
• Fixed a crash which could occur when files were saved in the Eclipse plug-in. The crash seemed to particularly affect plug-in installations running within Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio and configured for per-project analysis with the "Re-analyse saved files using the preferred method" option set.
  
• The project variables $(CEVER), $(ARCHFAM) and $(_ARCHFAM_) are now automatically defined when analysing Visual Studio 2008 projects for the NetDCU9 (ARMV4I) platform.
  
• Corrected the "Supported development environments" help topic to reflect the fact that Atmel AVR Studio 5 and Atmel Studio 6.x/7.x are now supported via a dedicated plug-in.
  
• Updated the PC-lint Plus message database to reflect changes in PC-lint Plus 1.2. Note that the definitions for Clang errors 5905, 5916 and 5922 have been omitted as the PC-lint Plus -dump_messages directive does not reveal either their titles or descriptions.
  

Download Visual Lint 6.5.4.298

Products, the Universe and Everything from Products, the Universe and Everything

This is a recommended maintenance update for Visual Lint 6.5. The following changes are included:

• If a "Lint" folder without the hidden attribute exists in a solution/workspace folder Visual Lint will no longer attempt to use it to store analysis results and will create a new ".visuallint" folder instead. This prevents Visual Lint from assuming that a user-created "Lint" folder is one which was created by an earlier (pre-v5.0) version of Visual Lint.
  
• Fixed a crash which could occur when files were saved in the Eclipse plug-in. The crash seemed to particularly affect plug-in installations running within Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio and configured for per-project analysis with the "Re-analyse saved files using the preferred method" option set.
  
• The project variables $(CEVER), $(ARCHFAM) and $(_ARCHFAM_) are now automatically defined when analysing Visual Studio 2008 projects for the NetDCU9 (ARMV4I) platform.
  
• Corrected the "Supported development environments" help topic to reflect the fact that Atmel AVR Studio 5 and Atmel Studio 6.x/7.x are now supported via a dedicated plug-in.
  
• Updated the PC-lint Plus message database to reflect changes in PC-lint Plus 1.2. Note that the definitions for Clang errors 5905, 5916 and 5922 have been omitted as the PC-lint Plus -dump_messages directive does not reveal either their titles or descriptions.
  

Download Visual Lint 6.5.4.298

Products, the Universe and Everything from Products, the Universe and Everything

This is a recommended maintenance update for Visual Lint 6.5. The following changes are included:

• If a "Lint" folder without the hidden attribute exists in a solution/workspace folder Visual Lint will no longer attempt to use it to store analysis results and will create a new ".visuallint" folder instead. This prevents Visual Lint from assuming that a user-created "Lint" folder is one which was created by an earlier (pre-v5.0) version of Visual Lint.
  
• Fixed a crash which could occur when files were saved in the Eclipse plug-in. The crash seemed to particularly affect plug-in installations running within Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio and configured for per-project analysis with the "Re-analyse saved files using the preferred method" option set.
  
• The project variables $(CEVER), $(ARCHFAM) and $(_ARCHFAM_) are now automatically defined when analysing Visual Studio 2008 projects for the NetDCU9 (ARMV4I) platform.
  
• Corrected the "Supported development environments" help topic to reflect the fact that Atmel AVR Studio 5 and Atmel Studio 6.x/7.x are now supported via a dedicated plug-in.
  
• Updated the PC-lint Plus message database to reflect changes in PC-lint Plus 1.2. Note that the definitions for Clang errors 5905, 5916 and 5922 have been omitted as the PC-lint Plus -dump_messages directive does not reveal either their titles or descriptions.
  

Download Visual Lint 6.5.4.298

Products, the Universe and Everything from Products, the Universe and Everything

This is a recommended maintenance update for Visual Lint 6.5. The following changes are included:

• Added the ability to override the analysis tool installation folder on a per solution/workspace or project basis [Visual Lint Enterprise and Build Server Editions].
  
• The analysis tool executable pathname can now be overridden on a per project basis as well as per solution/workspace [Visual Lint Enterprise and Build Server Editions].
  
• Fixed a minor resizing bug in the Analysis Configuration Dialog.
  
• Fixed a minor bug in the "Active Analysis Tool" dialog.
  

Download Visual Lint 6.5.3.296

Products, the Universe and Everything from Products, the Universe and Everything

This is a recommended maintenance update for Visual Lint 6.5. The following changes are included:

• Added the ability to override the analysis tool installation folder on a per solution/workspace or project basis [Visual Lint Enterprise and Build Server Editions].
  
• The analysis tool executable pathname can now be overridden on a per project basis as well as per solution/workspace [Visual Lint Enterprise and Build Server Editions].
  
• Fixed a minor resizing bug in the Analysis Configuration Dialog.
  
• Fixed a minor bug in the "Active Analysis Tool" dialog.
  

Download Visual Lint 6.5.3.296