Code Analysis - Treat as Error

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Published on 2009-06-25T18:40:45Z Indexed on 2010/04/02 6:03 UTC
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best-practices

Looking to enable the "Enable code Analysis on Build" feature in Visual Studio.

Obviously the Rules are a best practice, and I am working with an existing code base that currently fails many of the rules.

I am looking for input as to which rules are the most egregious and should be treated as an Error.

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