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copied!<p>How can I run FxCop against an ASP.net Web-site?</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>I have an ASP.net Web-site that I want to run FxCop against.</p> <p><strong>Note</strong>: I have an ASP.net web-site, not an ASP.net web-application, that I want to run FxCop against. </p> <p>How can I run FxCop against an ASP.net web-site in Visual Studio 2010 Professional?</p> <hr> <p><a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/asmxandxml/thread/737febfb-c142-4056-bf82-728d58ce8760" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Some people suggest</a> that it's very simple: just right-click the web-site project, and click <strong>Run Code Analysis on Web Site</strong>:</p> <blockquote> <p>The process it very simple.... just right click on the web site project and "Run Code Analysis on Web Site"</p> </blockquote> <p>What they ignore is that <a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/asmxandxml/thread/737febfb-c142-4056-bf82-728d58ce8760" rel="nofollow noreferrer">no such option exists</a>:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/XlLkt.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <hr> <p>I also tried <strong>Tools</strong> menu -> <strong>FxCop</strong>. But of course that doesn't work because its command line options:</p> <pre><code>FxCopCmd.exe /c /f:$(TargetPath) /d:$(BinDir) /r:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Fxcop 10.0\Rules" </code></pre> <p>Doesn't make sense for web-sites.</p> <hr> <p><a href="http://www.webpronews.com/using-fxcop-with-aspnet-2006-12" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Someone has suggested</a>, correctly, that it's not possible, because there is no assembly for FxCop to validate:</p> <blockquote> <p>The build process in ASP.NET 2.0 is very different than in ASP.NET 1.x, because it does not produce a dll file.</p> <p>That means that you cannot use FxCop because it can only work with dll and exe file types.</p> </blockquote> <p>That means that short of compiling the entire web-site into an assembly, you cannot run FxCop against an ASP.net web-site.</p> <p>How can I run FxCop against an ASP.net web-site?</p>

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