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Before you can create your own code analyzer, you need to ensure that you have installed the .NET Compiler Platform SDK. To do this, perform the following steps:

Add a new project to your solution and click on Extensibility. Select Download the .NET Compiler Platform SDK and click OK.

This will actually create a project with an index file. The page that opens will provide a download to the .NET Compiler Platform SDK. Click on that to start the download.

Just save the downloaded file to a directory on your hard drive. Then ...

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