How can I selectively turn on or off specific categories of Code Analysis build warnings in VS2008?

Question

Where is the HMI/Dialog/UI to pick and choose which types of build warnings that I'd like to be notified ?

e.g.

Warning 77 CA1725 : Microsoft.Naming : In member 'x', change parameter name 'a' to 'b' in order to match the identifier as it has been declared in 'd'. <filename>

isn't as important as

Warning 75 CA2200 : Microsoft.Usage : 'a' rethrows a caught exception and specifies it explicitly as an argument. Use 'throw' without an argument instead, in order to preserve the stack location where the exception was initially raised. <filename>

I've just inherited a ton of code.. and there is too much noise. I see a Suppress Messages(s) on a right click on the build warning... but I'm afraid I'd not be able to turn it back on :)

This seems to be more painful than necessary... Am I missing something ?

Answer 1

I suspect it depends on the project type, but look in the project properties page under the "Build" tab if there is one. For example, in a C# project it's in the project properties, "Build", "Suppress warnings".

EDIT: This textbox is where you'd normally put in the warning numbers, e.g. 2200 and 1725. However, these are the options which are fed to the compiler. If this is an FxCop rule, I don't think it's going to help you.

You can suppress FxCop messages in specific places using attributes, or go to the project page and the "Code Analysis" tab for project-wide settings.