Issue with SonarQube with Stylecop for C# project

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I am trying to use SonarQube for static code analysis for my organization. All our C# projects already have StyleCop enabled which has helped us a lot in terms of code readability. Now we want to utilize SonarQube for static code analysis.

I successfully hosted the SonarQube server locally following the guidelines provided here. I am able to run the analysis successfully and generate the sonarqube report when there are no warning-suppressions in the code.

ISSUE: Sonarqube does not consider in-code warning-suppressions and msbuild fails.

I created a sample C# console application project to demo the problem I am facing.

StyleCop is enabled (Installed nuget: StyleCop.Analyzers v1.1.118) and warnings are converted to errors. Below is the snippet of the ruleset

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<Rules AnalyzerId="StyleCop.Analyzers" RuleNamespace="StyleCop.Analyzers">
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<Rule Id="SA1307" Action="Error" />
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The project has the below files: 1. Program.cs

// <copyright file="Program.cs" company="PlaceholderCompany">
// Copyright (c) PlaceholderCompany. All rights reserved.
// </copyright>

namespace StyleCopSonarQubeIssue
{
    /// <summary>
    /// The program class.
    /// </summary>
    internal class Program
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Defines the entry point of the application.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="args">The arguments.</param>
        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // Method intentionally left empty.
        }
    }
}
  1. SystemInfo.cs
// <copyright file="SystemInfo.cs" company="PlaceholderCompany">
// Copyright (c) PlaceholderCompany. All rights reserved.
// </copyright>

namespace StyleCopSonarQubeIssue
{
    using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

    /// <summary>
    /// The sytem info enum.
    /// </summary>
    [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
    public struct SystemInfo
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Oem Id.
        /// </summary>
        public uint dwOemId;

        /// <summary>
        /// Page size.
        /// </summary>
        public uint dwPageSize;
    }
}
  1. packages.config
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<packages>
  <package id="StyleCop.Analyzers" version="1.1.118" targetFramework="net452" developmentDependency="true" />
</packages>
  1. GlobalSuppressions.cs
[assembly: System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessage("StyleCop.CSharp.NamingRules", "SA1307:Accessible fields should begin with upper-case letter", Justification = "Native code.", Scope = "member", Target = "~F:StyleCopSonarQubeIssue.SystemInfo.dwPageSize")]
[assembly: System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessage("StyleCop.CSharp.NamingRules", "SA1307:Accessible fields should begin with upper-case letter", Justification = "Native code.", Scope = "member", Target = "~F:StyleCopSonarQubeIssue.SystemInfo.dwOemId")]
  1. App.config (default - no changes)

Build the project - SUCCESS

Follow the guidelines by SonarQube to analyze the above project.

  1. SonarScanner.MSBuild.exe begin /k:“StyleCopSonarQubeIssue” /d:sonar.host.url=“http://localhost:9000” /d:sonar.login=""
  2. MsBuild.exe /t:Rebuild You will be below error after this statement:
Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 14.0.27530.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Build started 2019-07-22 11:17:25 AM.
The target "RazorCoreCompile" listed in a BeforeTargets attribute at "C:\Users\bshah\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue\.sonarqube\bin\targets\SonarQube.Integration.targets (453,49)" does not exist in the project, and will be ignored.
Project "C:\Users\bshah\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue.csproj" on node 1 (Rebuild target(s)).
CoreClean:
  Creating directory "obj\Debug\".
GenerateBindingRedirects:
  No suggested binding redirects from ResolveAssemblyReferences.
CreateProjectSpecificDirs:
  Creating directory "C:\Users\bshah\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue\.sonarqube\conf\0".
CoreCompile:
  C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\csc.exe /noconfig /nowarn:1701,1702 /nostdlib+ /platform:anycpu32bitpreferred /errorreport:prompt /warn:4 /define:DEBUG;TRACE /highentropyva+ /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.5.2\Microsoft.CSharp.dll" /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.5.2\mscorlib.dll" /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.5.2\System.Core.dll" /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.5.2\System.Data.DataSetExtensions.dll" /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.5.2\System.Data.dll" /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.5.2\System.dll" /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.5.2\System.Net.Http.dll" /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.5.2\System.Xml.dll" /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.5.2\System.Xml.Linq.dll" /debug+ /debug:full /filealign:512 /optimize- /out:obj\Debug\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue.exe /ruleset:"C:\Users\bshah\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue\.sonarqube\conf\0\merged.ruleset" /errorlog:"C:\Users\bshah\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue\bin\Debug\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue.exe.RoslynCA.json" /subsystemversion:6.00 /target:exe /warnaserror- /utf8output /analyzer:C:\Users\bshah\AppData\Local\Temp\.sonarqube\resources\0\Google.Protobuf.dll /analyzer:C:\Users\bshah\AppData\Local\Temp\.sonarqube\resources\0\SonarAnalyzer.CSharp.dll /analyzer:C:\Users\bshah\AppData\Local\Temp\.sonarqube\resources\0\SonarAnalyzer.dll /analyzer:C:\Users\bshah\AppData\Local\Temp\.sonarqube\resources\1\Google.Protobuf.dll /analyzer:C:\Users\bshah\AppData\Local\Temp\.sonarqube\resources\1\SonarAnalyzer.dll /analyzer:C:\Users\bshah\AppData\Local\Temp\.sonarqube\resources\1\SonarAnalyzer.VisualBasic.dll /analyzer:..\packages\StyleCop.Analyzers.1.1.118\analyzers\dotnet\cs\StyleCop.Analyzers.CodeFixes.dll /analyzer:..\packages\StyleCop.Analyzers.1.1.118\analyzers\dotnet\cs\StyleCop.Analyzers.dll /additionalfile:"C:\Users\bshah\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue\.sonarqube\conf\cs\SonarLint.xml" /additionalfile:"C:\Users\bshah\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue\.sonarqube\conf\0\ProjectOutFolderPath.txt" GlobalSuppressions.cs Program.cs Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs SystemInfo.cs "C:\Users\bshah\AppData\Local\Temp\.NETFramework,Version=v4.5.2.AssemblyAttributes.cs"
  Using shared compilation with compiler from directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin
Program.cs(10,20): warning S1118: Add a 'protected' constructor or the 'static' keyword to the class declaration. [C:\Users\bshah\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue.csproj]
_CopyAppConfigFile:
  Copying file from "App.config" to "bin\Debug\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue.exe.config".
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(3813,5): error MSB3030: Could not copy the file "obj\Debug\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue.exe" because it was not found. [C:\Users\bshah\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue.csproj]
Done Building Project "C:\Users\bshah\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue.csproj" (Rebuild target(s)) -- FAILED.

Build FAILED.

"C:\Users\bshah\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue.csproj" (Rebuild target) (1) ->
(CoreCompile target) -> 
  Program.cs(10,20): warning S1118: Add a 'protected' constructor or the 'static' keyword to the class declaration. [C:\Users\bshah\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue.csproj]


"C:\Users\bshah\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue.csproj" (Rebuild target) (1) ->
(CopyFilesToOutputDirectory target) -> 
  C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(3813,5): error MSB3030: Could not copy the file "obj\Debug\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue.exe" because it was not found. [C:\Users\bshah\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue\StyleCopSonarQubeIssue.csproj]

    1 Warning(s)
    1 Error(s)

Time Elapsed 00:00:00.96

Check the detailed errors \bin\Debug*.exe.RoslynCA.json file and you will see that the warnings that are suppressed in GlobalSuppression.cs are not considered. So the C# compiler does not generate the .exe and msbuild fails.

Any pointers???

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FYI answered in this duplicate post on StackOverflow.