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+name: "CodeQL"
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ main, release ]
+  pull_request:
+    # The branches below must be a subset of the branches above
+    branches: [ main ]
+
+jobs:
+  analyze:
+    name: Analyze
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      actions: read
+      contents: read
+      security-events: write
+
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        language: [ 'csharp' ]
+
+    steps:
+    - name: Checkout repository
+      uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      with:
+        fetch-depth: 0 # patch around Nerdbank.GitVersioning failure
+
+    # Initializes the CodeQL tools for scanning.
+    - name: Initialize CodeQL
+      uses: github/codeql-action/init@v1
+      with:
+        languages: ${{ matrix.language }}
+
+    - run: |
+       dotnet build
+
+    - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
+      uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v1