Disabling a specific C# 9 source generator

Question

Is there any way to disable a specific C# 9 source generator? Or alternatively disable them all?

the package in question is https://github.com/Husqvik/GraphQlClientGenerator#c-9-source-generator which is mean to be able to be used as both a lib and a source generator. but those are mutually exclusive, ie the majority of use cases it make no sense to gen code both by executing code and by code gen

Pretty sure source generators are just fancy analyzers, and you can disable those. — Jeremy Lakeman, Feb 10 '21 at 02:53
Let’s ask a maintainer of several very important open-source projects (and with reasonable rep) if he has made an effort. — Matthias, Feb 10 '21 at 03:02
@DanielA.White i spent ~45 min researching. nothing that even gave me a direction of what to try. — Simon, Feb 10 '21 at 03:05
@JeremyLakeman i tried a few diff combos of exclude/include. the generator still ran. eg IncludeAssets="compile" ExcludeAssets="all" — Simon, Feb 10 '21 at 03:05
Is the source generation a standalone package or part of another package? — JohanP, Feb 10 '21 at 03:08
@JohanP it is a lib and a source generator in one package. i updated the Q with the full context — Simon, Feb 10 '21 at 03:11
I think the generator needs to be included as an analyzer dependency... If it's being included as a transitive dependency, complain upstream or recompile packages yourself I guess. — Jeremy Lakeman, Feb 10 '21 at 03:20
Or can you "ExcludeAssets" the transitive analyzers dependency https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/consume-packages/package-references-in-project-files#controlling-dependency-assets? — Jeremy Lakeman, Feb 10 '21 at 03:24

score 16 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 10 '21 at 03:41

seems this will disable all

<Target Name="DisableAnalyzers" 
        BeforeTargets="CoreCompile">
  <ItemGroup>
    <Analyzer Remove="@(Analyzer)" />
  </ItemGroup>
</Target>

removing a named one uses the file path

<Target Name="DisableAnalyzers"
        BeforeTargets="CoreCompile">
  <ItemGroup>
    <Analyzer Remove="D:\nugets\nugetx\0.9.2\analyzers\dotnet\cs\NugetXAnalizer.dll" />
  </ItemGroup>
</Target>

ok and finally u can remove based on filename

<Target Name="DisableAnalyzers"
        BeforeTargets="CoreCompile">
  <ItemGroup>
    <Analyzer Remove="@(Analyzer)"
              Condition="'%(Filename)' == 'NugetXAnalizer'"/>
  </ItemGroup>
</Target>

Hi, Where do add the target ? How Do I integrate the target into my solution ? Thx — EldadC, Jan 25 '22 at 13:33

Disabling a specific C# 9 source generator

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