Question: Workspace for new csproj format
josephwoodward opened this issue · comments
Hi,
I've been working on a Visual Studio Code extension that makes heavy use of a ProjectJsonWorkspace to load dependencies which lives within the Microsoft.DotNet.ProjectModel.Workspaces package, however with .NET Core now using MSBuild this workspace becomes redundant.
Is there an equivalent workspace format I can use that supports the .NET Standard? Everything I've seen about the MSBuildWorkspace appears to be Windows only.
Tagging @DustinCampbell and @mattwar
We haven't done the work to make MSBuildWorkspace work properly with the new MSBuild cross-platform. In the meantime, you might look at what omnisharp does to populate it's workspace.
Alright, thank you very much @Pilchie, I've already spoken with @DustinCampbell about it who was very helpful. I just wanted to exhaust all options before I start investigating how to build a custom workspace (which is how OmniSharp do it).
Hi @Pilchie Any plan to make MSBuildWorkspace work properly with the new MSBuild cross-platform?
@DustinCampbell has been doing some thinking around this, but it's quite tricky due to a few issues:
- MSBuild not having a central location to depend on anymore.
- If your app is running on .NET Core, it won't be able to handle (some) projects that target .NET Framework, since the tasks won't run on .NET Core.
However, https://github.com/omnisharp/omnisharp-roslyn does support creating it's workspace from an SDK csproj.
Thank you @Pilchie for your quick response. Our project https://github.com/dotnet/docfx depends heavily on MSBuildWorkspace to load the projects and then generate documentation from source code. What would be your suggestions for us? Waiting for MSBuildWorkspace's x-plaform support?