Can I use dotnet sonarscanner to report to multiple projects?

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I need to setup Sonarqube for a C# solution which contains two “independent” projects. I can’t split up the solution because of “political reasons”. I found out that I can create two Sonarqube projects and use sonar.sources and sonar.inclusion to associate the correct C# projects to them.

How can I “fill” the two projects with data in a single build run? I’m using sonarscanner for dotnet like this:

dotnet sonarscanner begin /k:"[Project]"

but it only accepts a single project. Can I start sonarscanner twice before I run the build? Any other tricks?

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Hi,

Welcome to the community!

Are these projects part of the same solution? There’s a bit of a nomenclature clash when you put SonarQube and .NET together. If both of your .NET projects are part of the same .NET solution, then that’s one SonarQube project (confused yet? :crazy_face:)

So you would only need to run the scanner once for the solution.

Does that make sense?

 
Ann

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Sry for the late answer. I was busy in another project and just came back to this topic.

Basically we have a single Gitlab repo with a single .NET solution, but the solution contains .NET projects of two independent teams. Therefor I’d like to have two Sonarqube projects. One for team A and one for team B. The challenge is that the solution is build by a single CI pipeline. This means the entire solution is build, but some analyze should go to the Sonarqube project of team A and some should go to the Sonarqube project of team B

I can determine both code parts with source/exclude statements, but I need to know how I can define two target projects for the same pipeline.

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Hi,

Your original question was about populating two different SonarQube projects from one analysis. That’s not possible. You’ll need to do two different build/analysis runs, passing your source/exclude statements and a different project key for each one.

 
Ann

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Thanks for the answer. That’s unfortunate. Do you see any other option to solve my problem?

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Hi @Sonar31,

It is an interesting topic.

Did you think about modifying your pipeline? It could be something like

If team A commit => dotnet sonarscanner begin /k:"[ProjectA]"
else => dotnet sonarscanner begin /k:"[ProjectB]"

You can still have one CI pipeline but two separate projects on SonarQube. The build stage remains no change.

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Yes this could be an option I’ll keep in mind.

I found out that you can specify modules with individual sources, but it looks like it’s only supported for maven projects: SonarQube multi module maven project - Stack Overflow

sonar.sourceEncoding=UTF-8
sonar.projectKey=com.company.project:parent
sonar.sources=src
sonar.java.binaries=**/*

#List of module identifiers
sonar.modules=../module1,../module2,../module3

#module1 settings
module1.sonar.projectName=com.company.project:module1
module1.sonar.sources=src/main/java

#module2 settings
module2.sonar.projectName=com.company.project:module2
module2.sonar.sources=src/main/java

#module3 settings
module3.sonar.projectName=com.company.project:module3
module3.sonar.sources=src/main/java

Could this be done for C# projects too?

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You have multi-modules maven projects. But I’ve never seen multi-modules C# projects.