Deep down #dotnet #csharp source generation rabbit hole testing stuff... but can't stop thinking just because I can, should I?🤣 - ThreadSky

devlead.se • 18 days ago

Deep down #dotnet #csharp source generation rabbit hole testing stuff... but can't stop thinking just because I can, should I?🤣

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simoncropp.bsky.social•18 days ago

does this make things easier?

simoncropp.bsky.social•18 days ago

https://github.com/VerifyTests/Verify.SourceGenerators

devlead.se•18 days ago

Yes it does! I'm obviously already using Verify 🤩 it's super helpful essentially have two unit tests generating loads of snapshots. So already happy customer 😎

simoncropp.bsky.social•18 days ago

let me know if i an improve the source gen integration, as i have not used it myself

devlead.se•18 days ago

Will do. Perhaps the sample needs updating; the last time I checked, it used an old version of Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.* and generated warnings if on newer.

kristinadmishra.bsky.social•18 days ago

Something I often find myself saying...

philco.bsky.social•18 days ago

I wrote one for automatically tagging EF queries with source info a few months back. I don't even use entity framework, just seemed like fun

https://thirty25.blog/blog/2025/04/ef-core-source-gen-interceptors

simoncropp.bsky.social•18 days ago

that is very cool

philco.bsky.social•18 days ago

I appreciate that.

Been ten years since I've been in a world that was using SQL Server and Entity Framework, but back then I would have loved this.

Very fun project to build and see come together though

simoncropp.bsky.social•18 days ago

i will show the EF devs at work

kirillosenkov.com•18 days ago

I found that for many simple cases generating using MSBuild WriteLineToFile is better than using source generators

devlead.se•18 days ago

Used to be a heavy T4 user, IMHO a shame it's gotten neglected.

But when working with referenced assemblies attributes etc. source generators proven really powerful.

But with great power comes great responsibility 😎

kirillosenkov.com•18 days ago

there's https://github.com/mono/t4 that is quite modern, have you seen that?

devlead.se•18 days ago

Yip, contributed to that too.

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