Visual Studio 2012 Express Code Analysis <p>The Microsoft documentation talks about a limited set of code analysis tools being available for the express edition (e.g. <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/09/12/visual-studio-express-2012-for-windows-desktop-is-here.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Microsoft Visual Studio Blog</a> ). </p> <p>I am using VS 2012 update 3, and can not see any code analysis options in context menus, or any buttons or menu options. I am pretty sure I ran some code analysis at some point, but that might have been before update 2 was installed.</p> <p>Does anyone know if this option has been removed from more recent express editions, and if not where I can find the appropriate menu item or settings to be able to run and view the results of code analysis.</p> <h3>Edit</h3> <p>there is a very clear description given below by Crippledsmurf, and it is obviously possible to access Code Analysis from vs express. I must have somehow changed some option, because none of the options described are accessible:</p> <p>Solution explorer - solution context menu: <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/6Dhd8.jpg" alt="solution context menu"></p> <p>project context menu:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/UtXlB.jpg" alt="project context menu"></p> <p>project properties:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/HXYZp.jpg" alt="project properties"></p>