How closely integrated into Visual Studio is Visual Lint?
Recenlt versions of Visual Studio such as Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 allow extremely close integration into the IDE. Under these environments, Visual Lint will integrate its commands into the Visual Studio menubar and command bars, and even add a “Perform Lint Analysis” command to the context menu in the code editor. The three Visual Lint toolwindows can be docked anywhere in the IDE, and can be pinned and autohidden just like any other window. Under Visual C++ 6.0 and eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0 the level of integration we can offer is, unfortunately, rather more limited. Visual Lint will still create its own toolbar (named “VisLint” rather than “Visual Lint” due to the rather low level method we have to use to set the name), but it cannot add commands to the menubar or control the state of the toolbar commands (disabled, selected etc.) as the IDE simply does not provide the capability for add-ins to do this. Even worse, the IDE does not provide any capabilities to integrat
