Add Roslyn source generators conceptual overview and incremental generator tutorial #51546
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Adds dedicated source generator documentation to the Roslyn SDK section—previously just a one-line external link to the cookbook. Aligned with companion sample code in dotnet/samples#7091.
New docs
source-generators-overview.md— What source generators do, incremental pipeline model, input providers (ForAttributeWithMetadataName,AdditionalTextsProvider,AnalyzerConfigOptionsProvider), project setup, debugging, best practicestutorials/incremental-source-generator-tutorial.md— Step-by-step walkthrough building theGenerateMembersgenerator: marker attribute injection viaRegisterPostInitializationOutput, attribute-driven filtering withForAttributeWithMetadataName,Describe()+PropertyNamescode emissionSnippet projects (compile-tested, output-verified)
The tutorial snippets mirror the
GenerateMemberssample from dotnet/samples#7091:Generator targets
netstandard2.0withMicrosoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp4.10.0; demo targetsnet8.0.Other changes
index.md— Replaced external cookbook link with references to new docs + samples repotoc.yml— Added overview and tutorial entries under Roslyn SDK sectionAdditionalTextsProvider)Original prompt
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