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RSCG_TimeBombComment aka Time Bomb comment for technical debt

Reference the nuget package

    <PackageReference Include="RSCG_TimeBombComment" Version="2023.12.19.1802"  PrivateAssets="all" OutputItemType="Analyzer" ReferenceOutputAssembly="false" />

Then just add :

//TB: 2021-09-13 this is a comment transformed into an error

and you will see the error!

The general form is

//TB: yyyy-MM-dd whatever here

Now you can add

//TODO this is just appearing in task list and as a warning
//TODO 2025-09-23 and this is going to warning

Examples

//TB: 2020-09-13 this is a comment transformed into an error

will produce an error

Usage for technical debt

When you have a

//TODO

comment in your code, you can transform it into an error time bomb by adding the following line in your project file

//TB: yyyy-MM-dd whatever here and on the date will produce an error when compiling the project

Usage for obsolete methods

Imagine you have a method that is obsolete and you want to remember that you have to remove it. Just put the following line in your project file

[Obsolete("should be deleted on the date on the right", TB_20210915)]
static string Test1()
{
    return "asdasd";
}

Then RSCG will create a static const boolean TB_20210915 that will be true if the date is less than 2021-09-15

Also, when you want to test something in your code, but give error if compiled with release

//Just for debug: if(args.length>0) throw new ArgumentException();
//JFD: test

will raise error if compiled with

dotnet build -c release

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