Hi .NET folks
I’d like to announce that the time has come for us to deprecate support for MSBuild 14 & 15 when analysing .NET projects. These were shipped with Visual Studio 2015 and 2017 and no longer have mainstream support from Microsoft. We plan to drop support for these versions starting in 2024, so we suggest migrating your build pipelines to use newer MSBuild versions this year.
Supporting these older versions makes it hard for us to leverage the new features in Roslyn that allow us to improve our analysis. There are some rules that are computed in different ways depending on the version of MSBuild you are using - where this is the case we will no longer make improvements to these rules on the deprecated MSBuild versions.
With these changes, you can still analyze your projects targetting older versions of .NET Framework or .NET Core, while using a newer version of MSBuild.
Please let me know if you have any questions
Tom