Visual Expert 2024 is available to download with PowerBuilder code profiling features and more to boost your productivity and code quality.
What’s New in Visual Expert 2024
PowerBuilder Code Profiling
- Generate a trace to identify slow code consuming the most time in a business process.
- The lines are highlighted in red with execution time percentages in Visual Expert source code view.
- Streamline optimization by focusing on critical areas for improvement.
Code Inspection Reports in JUnit and JSON Format
- Export Visual Expert code inspection results for DevOps integration.
- Gain a comprehensive project overview, including code review output, without opening Visual Expert.
Set Up Code Inspection Profiles
- Customize code review results with defined inspection thresholds.
- Maintain a balance between code quality, security, and practicality.
- Choose from Ideal, Strict, Moderate, Light, Legacy code, or create a Custom profile.
- Ensure rigorous and complete compliance, or opt for a more lenient approach.
Migration to PowerBuilder 2022 and Higher
- Visual Expert complements PB Migration Assistant by integrating a set of specific rules.
- Automatically detect code unsupported in PowerBuilder 2022 and higher versions.
Quick Search
- Visual Expert 2024 introduces Quick Search, presenting results in a simple list within the treeview.
- Conveniently find and access desired strings using markers added to the source code view.
Visual Expert Performance Updates
- Faster treeview macros and quicker code analyses to improve Visual Expert’s performance and speed.
- Core features include a new licensing system based on lines of code, PowerBuilder project creation in Source Control, improved Source Control connections, and enhanced FIPS encryption support.
- Macro development enhancements introduce improved CRUD matrix for DataWindows, a performance-oriented Smart Profiling Macro, and 'Most Defective Items' Macro for Application and Code Inspection root nodes.
About Visual Expert
Visual Expert boosts the code quality and security in PowerBuilder applications by offering code profiling, performance tuning, and advanced code inspection features. It identifies bottlenecks, detects quality and security issues, and streamlines development. Integrating Visual Expert with DevOps platforms and supporting various coding standards ensures code quality throughout the development lifecycle.
