http://davesbox.com/archive/2008/12/26/code-analysis-failing-with-invalid-settings-passed-to-codeanalysis-task.aspxI’ve seen recent reports of Visual Studio Code Analysis failing (such as this one ) with the following error: Invalid settings passed to CodeAnalysis task.  See output window for details. Looking in the output window will show something similar toenCommunityServer 2008 (Build: 30417.1769)