I have custom publish process which firstly merges some assemblies into one via ILRepack, then performs some other steps and finally cleans up publish directory - removes merged dependencies from APP_NAME.deps.json, relevant assemblies and symbol files.
In order to implement the last step, I've created a NuGet package with a custom MsBuild task.
According to Nate's blog post, I've set PrivateAssets="All"
in order to ship all task's dependencies within the package:
<ItemGroup>
<PackageReference Include="JetBrains.Annotations" Version="2019.1.3" />
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Build.Utilities.Core" Version="15.9.20" />
<PackageReference Include="Newtonsoft.Json" Version="12.0.2" />
<PackageReference Update="@(PackageReference)" PrivateAssets="All" />
</ItemGroup>
Package layout looks like:
Suddenly, during publish, this step fails with error:
task failed unexpectedly. Could not load file or assembly 'Newtonsoft.Json, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed'. Could not find or load a specific file. (0x80131621)
I can't understand why task tries to load version 12.0.0.0 while I have Newtonsoft.Json 12.0.2 (as specified in PackageReference).
Thank you for any help!
Updated:
According to this msbuild spec currently MSBuild tasks have serious limitations:
Tasks in MSBuild are dynamically loaded assemblies with potentially separate and colliding dependency trees. Currently MSBuild on .NET Core has no isolation between tasks and as such only one version of any given assembly can be loaded. Prime example of this is Newtonsoft.Json which has multiple versions, but all the tasks must agree on it to work.
Workarounds:
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