"Method type parameter in position 0 is not valid" running Code Metrics in Visual Basic 2010

Question

Hello,

I tried to point the Code Metrics feature at our class library, written in Visual Basic.  I am running Visual Studio Premium 10.0.40219.1 SP1Rel.  I received this error message:

     Project: <our project name>
     Configuration: Debug
     Scope: None
     Assembly: <our assembly name>
     Maintainability Index:
     Cyclomatic Complexity:
     Depth of Inheritance:
     Class Coupling:
     Lines of Code:
     Message: An error occurred while calculating code metrics for target file <our DLL> in project <our project name>. The following error was encountered while reading module <our module name>: Method type parameter in position 0 is not valid.

Since the error message is not specific, it's a bit tricky to guess which VB function or subroutine might be the problem.  (This is a large project.)  Help?  Tips?

-BGU

Answer 1

Unfortunately, it's not possible to get more information from the Code Metrics run because of the way the exception is handled internally.  To dig deeper, you could try attaching a debugger to the process to see which class is being read when the error occurs.