C-Sharp Plugins and Maven

As it used to be the case for the .NET Plugins, Maven can be used to launch Sonar analyses on your C# code base.
If you are familiar with maven, you can also use the maven-dotnet-plugin in order to compile and package dotnet projects. If you already use CI tools such as Jenkins or Hudson on java maven projects, you can use the maven-dotnet-plugin to handle dotnet projects the same way

The POM file

Above, a very simple pom.xml file that can be used instead of the sonar-project.properties of sonar java runner. If you want to use maven compile and run the tests of your visual studio solution, you also need to declare the maven-dotnet-plugin. Please take a look at the examples provided on the maven-dotnet-plugin site.

The settings file

You need to configure somewhere the location of the external tools used by Sonar such as FxCop, Gendarme or StyleCop. The C# plugins options pages describes the properties needed in the settings.xml. Below an xml fragment describing a maven profile you could add in your settings.xml file :

You can also use property keys used by the maven dotnet plugin. Feel free to take a look at the examples on the maven dotnet plugins.