RunCodeAnalysis Does Not Exist

Late yesterday afternoon, I updated my project source and was met with the following error when attempting to build the solution:

The target “RunCodeAnalysis” does not exist in the project.   

If you have encountered this error, you know the Error List provides little help as the error description isn’t accompanied by a filename, line number or additional help.  If you search the solution for “RunCodeAnalysis” you will get no results.  If you review the offending project’s properties via the IDE, you won’t find a reference either…unless, of course, you’re running Visual Studio Team System. In this case, a big ol’ Code Analysis tab will be staring you in the face.

Here’s the deal.  Developer Out-To-Get-Me runs Visual Studio Team System and takes advantage of the built-in code analysis tools such as FxCop.  Yours truly is running the mere professional edition and has been diligently running FxCop outside of Visual Studio.  Great. Developer-Out-To-Get-Me’s tool is better than my tool.  The problem is the Code Analysis project settings are stored in the .csproj file and are committed to version control.  I pull down the latest .csproj, compile and my version of Visual Studio barfs. 

<CodeAnalysisIgnoreGeneratedCode>true</CodeAnalysisIgnoreGeneratedCode>
<RunCodeAnalysis>true</RunCodeAnalysis>
<CodeAnalysisRules>-Microsoft.Design...</CodeAnalysisRules>

I’m not sure there’s a good work around for this other than Developer Out-To-Get-Me refraining from committing their version of the project file.  It would be nice if varying versions of Visual Studio handled this more gracefully though. [Note, it seems to be handled okay for VS 2008 RTM but not VS 2008 SP1 but that's another story, I think.]

For now, I’ve manually purged the project file of the above XML block and the coding gods are smiling down on my again.  Next steps? Upgrade my own tools already.