CSharpGuidelinesAnalyzer causes extremely slow builds in .NET 10

[bkoelman]

When building in Visual Studio 2026 with CSharpGuidelinesAnalyzer enabled, I'm observing extremely slow builds. Upon inspection, the analysis takes much longer than usual (several minutes to build a single project). This doesn't happen when building from the command line with dotnet build. I haven't tried in Rider.

I don't think the times in the binlog are actually correct. It definitely did not take anywhere near the reported 44 minutes to complete the build. Interestingly, other analyzers are also reported to be quite slow.

It's still unclear to me why this happens, but I thought to reach out in case others are observing something similar. Please share your experiences so we can better understand what's causing this. I'm posting here for greater visibility.

To measure your own codebase, use the following steps:

• From a command prompt, run:

  set MSBUILDDEBUGENGINE=1
  set MSBUILDDEBUGPATH=c:\binlogs
  md c:\binlogs
  devenv.exe
  

• Create a Directory.Build.props in the root of your codebase with contents:

  <Project>
    <PropertyGroup>
      <ReportAnalyzer>true</ReportAnalyzer>
    </PropertyGroup>
  </Project>

• Open your solution, build the project(s) you want to measure, and close VS
• Open the first file created in c:\binlogs in MSBuild Structured Log Viewer
• Navigate to the Analyzer Summary top-level node and expand

[bkoelman]

Update: I forgot to pass --no-incremental to dotnet build initially. After doing so, it is similarly slow:

Build succeeded in 9,2s

vs:

Build succeeded in 52,6s

To turn off analyzers quickly, add a Directory.Build.targets to the root of your repository, for example:

<Project>
  <Target Name="DisableSlowAnalyzers" BeforeTargets="CoreCompile">
    <ItemGroup>
      <Analyzer Remove="@(Analyzer)" Condition="'%(Filename)' == 'xunit.analyzers'"/>
      <Analyzer Remove="@(Analyzer)" Condition="'%(Filename)' == 'CSharpGuidelinesAnalyzer'"/>
    </ItemGroup>
  </Target>
</Project>

Note that you can make it conditional. For example, to keep local builds in your IDE fast, while taking the performance hit during release builds in your CI environment:

<Target Name="DisableSlowAnalyzers" Condition="'$(Configuration)' == 'Debug'" BeforeTargets="CoreCompile">

The cause seems to be a regression in the C# compiler, tracked at dotnet/roslyn#80756. Please upvote there if you care about getting it fixed.