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Cannot run Code Analysis Analyzer in Visual Studio 2015

I installed Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.FxCopAnalyzers from nuget into a project.

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The project it is installed into is an existing project, building against Framework 4.5.1.

Code Analysis is Enabled on the project...

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... and I see CA warnings in the Build out put and the error window as expected, so I believe the ruleset to be valid.

However I can't seem to see out put from the analyzer, and I can't seem to find what this icon means in the documentation:

Analyzers

Right clicking on the Analyzers node and selecting Open Active Rule Set I can see the CA rules that the FxCop analyzer should be using:

Active Ruleset

Checking the location of the DLL, it's there in the nuget folder as expected:

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Solution

  • This package hasn't been updated since January. I guess it's been replaced by

    Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.FxCopAnalyzers