Changes

• NuGet 5.0 support
• Fixed PackageReference metadata not added for development dependencies
• Fixed DotNetCliToolReferences not being restored
• Fixed Multiplatform Library build error with Android projects

More information on all the new features and changes in Visual Studio for Mac 8.1 can be found in the release notes.

NuGet 5.0 support

NuGet 5.0.2.5988 is now included with Visual Studio for Mac 8.1.

Bug Fixes

Fixed PackageReference metadata not added for development dependencies

Installing a NuGet package that is a development dependency, such as GitInfo, would not add the PrivateAssets nor the IncludeAssets metadata to the PackageReference. This is now supported and mirrors the behaviour of ‘dotnet add package’ and Visual Studio on Windows.

Fixed DotNetCliToolReferences not being restored

DotNetCliToolReferences are available in the package dependency graph but are treated as separate projects in this graph. Since these did not map to an existing project in the solution they were not added to the full dependency graph which resulted in these tools not being restored.

DotNetCliToolReferences are only restored when the entire solution is restored. Restoring a single project only restores the project itself not the dotnet cli tool project referenced by the project.

MSBuild supports restoring DotNetCliToolReferences in any project type that uses PackageReferences so Visual Studio for Mac also supports this.

Fixed Multiplatform Library build error with Android projects

When generating a Portable Class Library (PCL) assembly from the intersection of project assemblies the ApiIntersect build task would throw an exception since it could not resolve the Mono.Android assembly. This problem has been fixed in a more recent NuGet.Build.Packaging where the failure to resolve has been converted to a warning.

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System.Exception: Could not resolve Mono.Android, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=84e04ff9cfb79065
    at ApiIntersect.FrameworkAssemblyResolver.Resolve (Mono.Cecil.AssemblyNameReference name, Mono.Cecil.ReaderParameters parameters) [0x0001b] in <aac3e0d5bcd4473a96e385115da49b96>:0
    at ApiIntersect.FrameworkAssemblyResolver.Resolve (Mono.Cecil.AssemblyNameReference name) [0x00000] in <aac3e0d5bcd4473a96e385115da49b96>:0
    at ICSharpCode.Decompiler.Ast.Transforms.IntroduceUsingDeclarations.Run (ICSharpCode.NRefactory.CSharp.AstNode compilationUnit) [0x00142] in <37b5ad8a7a94479fbc5b574a8fc6281a>:0
    at ICSharpCode.Decompiler.Ast.Transforms.TransformationPipeline.RunTransformationsUntil (ICSharpCode.NRefactory.CSharp.AstNode node, System.Predicate`1[T] abortCondition, ICSharpCode.Decompiler.DecompilerContext context) [0x0002c] in <37b5ad8a7a94479fbc5b574a8fc6281a>:0
    at ICSharpCode.Decompiler.Ast.AstBuilder.RunTransformations (System.Predicate`1[T] transformAbortCondition) [0x00000] in <37b5ad8a7a94479fbc5b574a8fc6281a>:0
    at ICSharpCode.Decompiler.Ast.AstBuilder.RunTransformations () [0x00000] in <37b5ad8a7a94479fbc5b574a8fc6281a>:0
    at ApiIntersect.MainClass.DumpTypes (System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T] types, System.String baseDir) [0x000a7] in <aac3e0d5bcd4473a96e385115da49b96>:0
    at ApiIntersect.MainClass.Process (System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T] intersections, System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T] exclusions, Mono.Cecil.ReaderParameters readerParameters, System.String outputPath) [0x00319] in <aac3e0d5bcd4473a96e385115da49b96>:0
    at ApiIntersect.MainClass.Main (System.String[] args) [0x0039f] in <aac3e0d5bcd4473a96e385115da49b96>:0

An updated NuGet.Build.Packaging has not been published to nuget.org so only new projects created with Visual Studio for Mac will get the NuGet package containing the fix.