PartialSourceGen.Attributes 0.0.2

What is this

This is a library containing the marker attributes used in PartialSourceGen library. In the normal use case, this library is not necessary, so this should not be needed to install!

It is needed, if you need to enable InternalsVisibleTo and you will get an error of CS0436.

Why

The source generator generates the attributes used as markers into your project with an internal scope.

When enabling InternalsVisibleTo all projects that reference each other will generate their own version of the same attribute markers, which normally is not visible to other projects.

Installation

Run dotnet add package PartialSourceGen.Attributes to add the marker attributes.

Then in your csproj file enable PARTIALSOURCEGEN_EXCLUDE_ATTRIBUTES constant:

 
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
    <PropertyGroup>
        
        <DefineConstants>PARTIALSOURCEGEN_EXCLUDE_ATTRIBUTES</DefineConstants>
    </PropertyGroup>
 </Project>

Contains

No logic only attributes.
The marker attributes can be found in the PartialSourceGen namespace:

• Partial
• IncludeInitializer
• ExcludePartial
• ForceNull
• PartialReference

The PartialReference comes in 2 variants, the newer dotnet 7.0, generic attribute variant and the traditional non-generic attribute variant.

Alternative solution

You can write your own attributes and put them in the PartialSourceGen namespace. The attributes do not contain logic, and are only markers for the source generator.

Versioning

The versioning of this library does not follow the source generator versioning.

References

The main PartialSourceGen project can be found here: https://github.com/Newex/PartialSourceGen