[BUG] Ambiguous reference error occurs when other package is included that provides its own Color object

[wolfgang-ironsoftware]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Did you read the "Reporting a bug" section on Contributing file?

• I have read the "Reporting a bug" section on Contributing file: https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#reporting-a-bug

Current Behavior

When creating a new MAUI project and adding MAUI Community Tookit and another project that includes its own Color object (e.g. SixLabors.ImageSharp, the following error occurs:

Error CS0104 'Color' is an ambiguous reference between 'Microsoft.Maui.Graphics.Color' and 'SixLabors.ImageSharp.Color' MauiCommunityToolkitColorIssue (net7.0-android)
C:...\MauiCommunityToolkitColorIssue\MauiCommunityToolkitColorIssue\CommunityToolkit.Maui.SourceGenerators\CommunityToolkit.Maui.SourceGenerators.Generators.TextColorToGenerator\EditorTextColorTo.g.shared.cs 23

Expected Behavior

No error should occur.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Create a new MAUI project
2. Add CommunityToolkit.Maui nuget
3. Add SixLabors.ImageSharp nuget
4. Compile the project

Link to public reproduction project repository

https://github.com/wolfgang-ironsoftware/MauiCommunityToolkitColorIssue

Environment

- .NET MAUI CommunityToolkit: 5.3.0
- OS: Windows 11
- .NET MAUI: 7.0.92

Anything else?

No response

[brminnick]

There's nothing we can do in the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit to resolve the fact that ImageSharp and .NET MAUI both have a class named Color.

We don't control either of those repositories.

[brminnick]

Apologies. I understand now that it is our Source Generator generating code causing the naming conflict. Thanks for the PR!

[pictos]

The workaround is to create a GlobalUsing file and this line there

global using Color = Microsoft.Maui.Graphics.Color;

[IIARROWS]

The workaround is to create a GlobalUsing file and this line there

global using Color = Microsoft.Maui.Graphics.Color;

The workaround doesn't work. I need the exact opposite.
Why is CommunityToolkit generating code in the first place place? I only installed for the save dialog, but it's trying to generate classes like "ColorAnimationExtensions_Picker".

Is this still present in the latest 7.0.0 package?

[IIARROWS]

There is a new assignment of a transparent color to "element.Color", do you prefer if I create new issue for the new PR?

line 36 of the generate file: element.TextColor ??= Colors.Transparent;

EDIT; it is referring to a class Colors and not the enumerator Color. I'll create a new issue.

[brminnick]

Is this still present in the latest 7.0.0 package?

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To answer you question, this bug fix has been included in CommunityToolkit.Maui since v6.0.0