How to fix the CA0053 error in Code Analysis in Visual Studio 2012?

by XDK 29. December 2013 06:45

Explanation:

You are opening a solution made in Visual Studio 2010 with VS 2012.  When you run Code Analysis you get a series of CA0053 errors, saying it is unable to load the rule sets from the Visual Studio 2010 directory

In the Error window you get an error message saying “Code Analysis detected errors.” And in the Code Analysis window you will get the “CA0053 Error running code analysis” with its “Unable to load rule assembly”.

This means the project is bound to Visual Studio 2010, where it should have been Visual Studio version independent. The absolute path to the Visual Studio 10 binaries is what causes the problem.

What has happened was that this certain VS2010 specific information was “inadvertently” introduced in SP1, and it has not been fixed in any later update. It does NOT happen if you run in Debug|x86 or Release|x86, but any other configuration you have added will give you this error.

Solution:

Tool to fix the errors available at http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/471da13b-d415-4a44-a4e9-a8222316b902

 

 

 

Tags:

Visual Studio 2010 | Visual Studio 2012

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