Question

I cannot figure out how to get rid of errors that should not be halting my compilation in Visual Studio 2010, and should not be show-stoppers (I will fix them later). I don’t want the compiler to just return an error and halt on these kinds of problems.

For example, I’m getting the following error:

Error 1 Warning as Error: XML comment
on
‘ScrewTurn.Wiki.SearchEngine.Relevance.Finalize(float)’
has a paramref tag for ‘IsFinalized’,
but there is no parameter by that name
C:\www\Wiki\Screwturn3_0_2_509\SearchEngine\Relevance.cs
60 70 SearchEngine

for this code:

  /// <summary>
  /// Normalizes the relevance after finalization.
  /// </summary>
  /// <param name="factor">The normalization factor.</param>
  /// <exception cref="InvalidOperationException">If <paramref name="IsFinalized"/> is <c>false</c> (<see cref="M:Finalize"/> was not called).</exception>
  public void NormalizeAfterFinalization(float factor) {
      if (factor < 0)
          throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("factor", "Factor must be greater than or equal to zero");

      if (!isFinalized)
          throw new InvalidOperationException("Normalization can be performed only after finalization");
      value = value * factor;
  }

I looked in menu Tools -> Options, but I don’t see where I can tweak the compiler and tell it not to worry about comment or XHTML based errors.

Answer 1

Each project in Visual Studio has a “treat warnings as errors” option. Go through each of your projects and change that setting:

1. Right-click on your project, select “Properties”.
2. Click “Build”.
3. Switch “Treat warnings as errors” from “All” to “Specific warnings” or “None”.

The location of this switch varies, depending on the type of project (class library vs. web application, for example).