The PVS-Studio tool is intended for developers of contemporary applications and it integrates into the Visual Studio 2015, 2013, 2012, 2010, 2008, 2005 environments providing the programmer with a convenient user interface to analyze files, navigate through code and get reference information. You do not need to study documentation and settings preliminarily to work with the analyzer. The analyzer is ready to work right after it is installed.

PVS-Studio is a static analyzer that detects errors in source code of C/C++/C++0x applications. There are 3 sets of rules included into PVS-Studio:

1. Diagnosis of 64-bit errors (Viva64)
2. Diagnosis of parallel errors (VivaMP)
3. General-purpose diagnosis