SonarQube analysis could not be completed because the analysis configuration file could not be found

The errors reported at the end of a SonarQube report are sometimes less helpful than the errors when you begin.

Eg when I got this error, scrolling to the top of the log showed that I wasn't correctly setting the sonar.projectKey value, but this message the OP shared is still what showed up at the end.

I had the same problem. You need find correct MSBuild.exe.

I have several in c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\... and also in c:\Program Files (x86)For my project in Visual Studio 2017 with .NETFramework,Version=v4.6.1 the correct MSBuild.exe is:

"c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\amd64\MSBuild.exe"  /t:Rebuild

For the Enterpsie version is should be:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\MSBuild" /t:Rebuild

I got the same error and was able to fix it by excluding "/t:Rebuild" from second step. Also used the VS2017 MSBuild.exe

These are the 3 commands I ran in Windows Command Prompt (CMD):

1>> SonarScanner.MSBuild.exe begin /k:"MyProjectName"2>> "C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2017/Enterprise/MSBuild/15.0/Bin/MSBuild.exe" "MySolution.sln" 3>> SonarScanner.MSBuild.exe end