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Enable code analysis on all projects and resolve warnings

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Description

Visual Studio's code analysis tools can help find issues in our C++ code. Eventually, it would be great to have these tools running in all of our builds and to fix all the warnings they generate.

See #689 for an example of how to enable the tools during the build. We'll enable code analysis only in the "Release" configuration to avoid slowing down Debug builds.

To see which warnings still need to be fixed, check a recent build from the master branch.

It would be best to submit fixes for unrelated warnings as separate PRs. I'll close out this issue when 1) all C++ projects are building with code analysis rules on and 2) all the warnings generated by those tools are fixed or silenced.

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Research direction

Start with issue #689 for the example of enabling Visual Studio code analysis during the build, then inspect a recent master-branch build to identify the remaining warnings. Apply the analysis rules only to the Release configuration across all C++ projects. Done means every C++ project has the rules enabled and all generated warnings are fixed or silenced.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
build-system, tooling
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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