Visual Studio 2010 Code Metrics Fail

Question

I have a .Net 2 project that compiles, builds and runs. It has 20 projects, with the goal being a Winforms application. Getting code metrics for every project works except the big one (the application). When it fails, it gives this error:

Message: An error occurred while calculating code metrics for target file <My executable> in project <WinformsApp>. The following error was encountered while reading module <SmallLibrary> Could not resolve type reference <Small Class that Does one thing>

The small class has only one method - a 10 line static. I commented out the contents of the class (which is used in many places, so I can't remove the class). It still failed. 

I placed the small class inside <WinformsApp> and removed it from <SmallLibrary> and the code metrics still failed.

I googled this error and found one reference - to a sharepoint project which implied that it was a VS2008 bug wherein references didn't trickle up. So I made sure that <WinformsApp> referenced <SmallLibrary> and all of <SmallLibrary>'s references DIRECTLY. No change.

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

Could you please provide a small repro code base (à la http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/complete.html).  Given the description you have given, it's rather difficult to try to figure out where the problem might lie.

Answer 2

Hi mphipps1,

Thank you for posting in the MSDN forum.

I agree with Nicole’s suggestion, since it is hard for us to repro this project, so if possible, you can share us a simple project, and we will try to check it.

In addition, based on your description,

“Message: An error occurred while calculating code metrics for target file <My executable> in project <WinformsApp>. The following error was encountered while reading module <SmallLibrary> Could not resolve type reference <Small Class that Does one thing>”

It seems that it is related to referenced assemblies, I find two threads about the member reference error.

See:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vstscode/thread/40b11852-9288-4a07-9967-c4b1c69a0edc/

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/vstscode/thread/8428f050-5493-4540-a94c-a42fa1552e0f. Hope it can provide useful information.

Best Regards,

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Jack Zhai [MSFT]
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Answer 3

Hi mphipps1,

I am writing to check the status of the issue on your side. 

What about this problem now?

Would you mind letting us know the result of the suggestion?

Best Regards,

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Jack Zhai [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us