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Created by James Hurrell, last modified on Apr 15, 2021

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Summary: This section provides information about how to create your own custom extension. Note this section contains advanced technical information and is only to be used by experienced CAST administrators.

Prerequisites and top-tips for creating a custom extension
How to publish documentation for CAST User Community extensions
Managing ID ranges for custom extensions
Extension description file
Extension tags
Configuring an icon for your extension
Auto-distributing specific CAST AIP configuration files with a custom extension
Creating a custom extension to share an add-on to CAST AIP
Creating or modifying a custom extension to exploit an existing CAST analyzer with the CAST AIP Extension SDK
Creating or modifying a custom extension using the CAST Universal Analyzer framework
What is the CAST Universal Analyzer and Framework
Universal Analyzer language packages
Configuring an external plugin to enrich the results for your Universal Analyzer language
Configuring code pre-processing for your Universal Analyzer language
How to configure a language for the CAST Engineering Dashboard
xxxCastMetrics.xml - defining new metrics for a UA language
xxxInformationTracking.xml file
xxxLanguagePattern.xml - defining how to analyze a language
xxxMetaModel.xml file
Defining a new language
Appendix - Special Cases
Ensuring your existing Universal Analyzer extension files are compatible with CAST AIP
Configuring CAST to accept your Universal Analyzer language package
Appendix - CAST Server Manager user components - PCK
Creating a new custom component
Check the installation of your component
Appendix - Importing an additional technology not supported by CAST AIP
Configuring UAX - UAXDIRECTORY - project files
Universal Importer - Advanced configuration
Advanced - Configuring results for the Code Viewer and for Metrics data
Advanced - Links with external objects stored in the Analysis Service
Advanced - Mixing a Universal Analyzer job and a Universal Importer job
Advanced - Resolving erroneous number of Total Checks reported by the CAST Engineering Dashboard

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