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Libraries Feature Switches

Starting with .NET 5 there are several feature-switches available which can be used to control the size of the final binary. They are available in all configurations but their defaults might vary as any SDK can set the defaults differently. Publicly documented feature switches can be found on the official docs. Non-public feature switches that impact the runtime libraries can be found in the following table.

Available Feature Switches

MSBuild Property Name AppContext Setting Description
DisableDependencyInjectionDynamicEngine Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.DisableDynamicEngine When set to true, DependencyInjection will avoid using System.Reflection.Emit when realizing services.
DynamicCodeSupport System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeFeature.IsDynamicCodeSupported Changes RuntimeFeature.IsDynamicCodeSupported to false to allow testing AOT-safe fallback code without publishing for Native AOT.
EnableGeneratedComInterfaceComImportInterop System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshalling.EnableGeneratedComInterfaceComImportInterop When set to true, enables casting source-generated COM object wrappers to built-in COM-based COM interfaces.
VerifyDependencyInjectionOpenGenericServiceTrimmability Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.VerifyOpenGenericServiceTrimmability When set to true, DependencyInjection will verify trimming annotations applied to open generic services are correct.
_AggressiveAttributeTrimming System.AggressiveAttributeTrimming When set to true, aggressively trims attributes to allow for the most size savings possible, even if it could result in runtime behavior changes
_ComObjectDescriptorSupport System.ComponentModel.TypeDescriptor.IsComObjectDescriptorSupported When set to true, supports creating a TypeDescriptor based view of COM objects.
_DefaultValueAttributeSupport System.ComponentModel.DefaultValueAttribute.IsSupported When set to true, supports creating a DefaultValueAttribute at runtime.
_DesignerHostSupport System.ComponentModel.Design.IDesignerHost.IsSupported When set to true, supports creating design components at runtime.
_EnableConsumingManagedCodeFromNativeHosting System.Runtime.InteropServices.EnableConsumingManagedCodeFromNativeHosting Getting a managed function from native hosting is disabled when set to false and related functionality can be trimmed.
_UseManagedNtlm System.Net.Security.UseManagedNtlm When set to true, uses built-in managed implementation of NTLM and SPNEGO algorithm for HTTP, SMTP authentication, and NegotiateAuthentication API instead of system provided GSSAPI implementation.

Any feature-switch which defines property can be set in csproj file or on the command line as any other MSBuild property. Those without predefined property name the value can be set with following XML tag in csproj file.

<RuntimeHostConfigurationOption Include="<AppContext-Setting>"
                                Value="false"
                                Trim="true" />

Adding New Feature Switch

The primary goal of features switches is to produce smaller output by removing code which is unreachable under feature condition. The typical approach is to introduce static bool like property which is used to guard the dependencies which can be trimmed when the value is flipped. Ideally, the static property should be located in type which does not have any static constructor logic. Once you are done with the code changes following steps connects the code with trimming settings.

Add XML settings for the features switch to assembly substitution. It's usually located in src/ILLink/ILLink.Substitutions.xml file for each library. The example of the syntax used to control EnableUnsafeUTF7Encoding property is following.

<method signature="System.Boolean get_EnableUnsafeUTF7Encoding()" body="stub" value="false" feature="System.Text.Encoding.EnableUnsafeUTF7Encoding" featurevalue="false" />

Add MSBuild integration by adding new RuntimeHostConfigurationOption entry. The file is located in Microsoft.NET.Sdk.targets file and includes all other public feature-switches. You can add a new one by simply adding a new XML tag

<RuntimeHostConfigurationOption Include="<AppContext-Setting>"
            Condition="'$(<msbuild-property-name>)' != ''"
            Value="$(<msbuild-property-name>)"
            Trim="true" />

Please don't forget to update the table with available features-switches when you are done.