.Net Framework 4.5 is out of support and is now difficult to even install on a development machine. I have updated to 4.6.2, which is the oldest version still supported. These changes affect package assemblies.
Several of the nuget packages in the solution have vulnerabilities through their transient dependencies. These have been updated to the latest version. These changes only affect test projects.
The "cake.tool" dotnet tool is updated to the latest version.
All project unit and integration tests still pass, and the dotnet cake tasks still pass as well.
This pull request accomplishes three things:
All project unit and integration tests still pass, and the dotnet cake tasks still pass as well.