Disable code analysis at solution level in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012

Question

In our product, there are around 400 projects, so in VS 2012, if I want to make a build then it generates code analysis for all 400 projects and I can\'t manually disable co

Answer 1

You could write a little console application that reads all the project files out of a solution file and then toggle the Xml Node of each project.

Function to get the project files out of the solution:

public IEnumerable Parse(string solutionFile)
{
    if (solutionFile == null)
        throw new ArgumentNullException("solutionFile");

    if (!File.Exists(solutionFile))
        throw new FileNotFoundException("Solution file does not exist", solutionFile);

    var projectFiles = new List();

    using (var reader = new StreamReader(solutionFile, true))
    {
        while (!reader.EndOfStream)
        {
            var line = reader.ReadLine();
            if (line == null)
                continue;

            line = line.TrimStart();
            if (!line.StartsWith("Project(", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)) 
                continue;

            var projectData = line.Split(',');
            var projectFile = projectData[1].Trim().Trim('"');
            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Path.GetExtension(projectFile)))
                projectFiles.Add(projectFile);
        }
    }

    return projectFiles;
}

And the function to toggle the RunCodeAnalysis Node(s):

public void ToggleCodeAnalysis(string projectFile)
{
    if (projectFile == null)
        throw new ArgumentNullException("projectFile");

    if (!File.Exists(projectFile))
        throw new FileNotFoundException("Project file does not exist", projectFile);

    var xmlDocument = new XmlDocument();
    xmlDocument.Load(projectFile);

    var namespaceManager = new XmlNamespaceManager(xmlDocument.NameTable);
    namespaceManager.AddNamespace("ns", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003");

    var nodes = xmlDocument.SelectNodes("//ns:RunCodeAnalysis", namespaceManager);
    if (nodes == null)
        return;

    var hasChanged = false;
    foreach (XmlNode node in nodes)
    {
        bool value;
        if (!Boolean.TryParse(node.InnerText, out value))
            continue;

        node.InnerText = value ? "false" : "true";
        hasChanged = true;
    }

    if (!hasChanged)
        return;

    xmlDocument.Save(projectFile);
}