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An API to locate MSBuild assemblies from an installed Visual Studio location. Use this to ensure that calling the MSBuild API will use the same toolset that a build from Visual Studio or msbuild.exe would.
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Add some guardrails to MSBuild Locator #254

Open YuliiaKovalova opened 8 months ago

YuliiaKovalova commented 8 months ago

Add guardrails that can notify a customer that some of the deployed assemblies in a project can break MSBuild stuff.

rainersigwald commented 8 months ago

This would be beyond the "check for explicit MSBuild package references" we have:

https://github.com/microsoft/MSBuildLocator/blob/1c7a1092bec4b57c37a2f54e8db091073724c342/src/MSBuildLocator/build/Microsoft.Build.Locator.targets#L4-L21

We'd want something like a list of assemblies that shouldn't be deployed next to the final application, because they're expected to be found from the MSBuild installation.

AArnott commented 8 months ago

+1 to searching actual assemblies being deployed rather than looking at PackageReference items. Problematic assemblies like these (or System.CodeDom.dll) can be deployed without any PackageReference, including by transitive dependency.