Duplicate project GUID blocking SonarQube analysis of Windows 10 Universal Projects
I have working on getting a Windows 10 Universal application analysed with SonarQube 6.x as part of a VSTS build. The problem has been that when the VSTS task to complete the SonarQube analysis ran I kept getting an error in the form
1WARNING: Duplicate project GUID: "8ace107e-8e3c-4a1b-9920-e76eb1db5e53". Check that the project is only being built for a single platform/configuration and that that the project guid is unique. The project will not be analyzed by SonarQube. Project file: E:Build1\_work58sBlackMarble.Victory.Common.Module.csproj
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4The exclude flag has been set so the project will not be analyzed by SonarQube. Project file: E:Build1\_work58sBlackMarble.Victory.Ux.Common.csproj
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7WARNING: Duplicate project GUID: "1e7b2f4e-6de2-40ab-bff9-a0c63db47ca2". Check that the project is only being built for a single platform/configuration and that that the project guid is unique. The project will not be analyzed by SonarQube. 2017-06-09T15:50:41.9993583Z ##\[error\]No analysable projects were found but some duplicate project IDs were found. Possible cause: you are building multiple configurations (e.g. DEBUG|x86 and RELEASE|x64) at the same time, which is not supported by the SonarQube integration. Please build and analyse each configuration individually.
8Generation of the sonar-properties file failed. Unable to complete SonarQube analysis.
Turns out the issue was that even though my CI build was only set to create an x86|Debug build the act of creating the .APPX package was causing both x64 and ARM builds to be build too, this was too much for SonarQube as it though I had a multiplatform build..
The answer was to pass a parameter into the Visual Studio build task to disable the creation of the .APPX package.
The parameter override required is /p:AppxBundle=Never. This overrides the setting of Always that was set in the .CSProj file.
Once this change was done analysis completed as expected. Just need to fix all the issues it found now!