I have PostSharp included in all of my projects, as per the recommended best practices for PostSharp. However, I don't have any aspects or other transformations in some of these assemblies; they just reference other projects that do have aspects in use.
At build time, I get the following warning:
The module 'xxxxxxx.dll' does not contain any aspect or other transformation. For improved build-time performance, consider disabling PostSharp for this module by setting the compilation symbol (aka constant) 'SkipPostSharp' in your project, or set the MSBuild property 'SkipPostSharp=True'.
Thanks for the info, PostSharp! But I've "considered disabling PostSharp for this module" and decided not to do so. I'm perfectly happy to lose a tiny bit of build-time performance, in exchange for not having to think about it later when I do decide to use PostSharp in a project previously devoid of aspects.
How do I get PostSharp to stop telling me about this hint, and without enabling SkipPostSharp?
In your project properties under the PostSharp tab there is a line entry "Disabled Messages (semi-colon separated list)"
In that field enter the code for the particular message. I am not entirely sure what it is but try PS0121
Alternatively, if you manually edit your project file "*.csproj" you can add the PostSharpDisableMessages element into your PropertyGroup for your applicable configurations as shown below.
<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|AnyCPU' ">
<DebugSymbols>true</DebugSymbols>
<DebugType>full</DebugType>
<Optimize>false</Optimize>
<OutputPath>bin\Debug\</OutputPath>
<DefineConstants>DEBUG;TRACE</DefineConstants>
<ErrorReport>prompt</ErrorReport>
<WarningLevel>4</WarningLevel>
<ResolveAssemblyWarnOrErrorOnTargetArchitectureMismatch>None</ResolveAssemblyWarnOrErrorOnTargetArchitectureMismatch>
<PostSharpDisabledMessages>PS0131;PS0121</PostSharpDisabledMessages>
</PropertyGroup>