Document 'Resolve Assembly Reference core scenarios' #8506
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Co-authored-by: Rainer Sigwald <[email protected]>
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| signalling to RAR that it doesn't have to open the assembly files to read their AssemblyRef tables. | ||
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| 1. Project references. When a project depends on another project, the output file of the dependency is passed to RAR. Alternatively, a project may directly | ||
| reference a random file o disk, resulting in the same code path. Unlike SDK and NuGet, these references are not pre-resolved and RAR must open the assembly |
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Fixes #8441
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This document aims to capture the core functionality provided by the ResolveAssemblyReference task when building .NET (Core - pun intended) projects. The goal is to rationalize and optimize the task, ultimately achieving substantially better performance and crossing out RAR from the list of notoriously slow build tasks.
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