FAIL: .NET Standard 2.0 - SmartAssembly has encountered an invalid symbol

brian.webb

Using version 6.12.7.1100 (latest)

Easy to reproduce, seems to be any dll that targets .NET Standard 2.0 (we have three of them). When building I get tjhe following and my dll isn't created.I've seen many issues like this with very little response on this forum. Does anyone know how to get around this? I've tried pruning and it didn't help. Thanks!

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Build Failed

The build process failed during the preparation of the resulting assembly.

SmartAssembly has encountered an invalid symbol:

[mscorelib]

System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncTaskMethodBuilder

Assembly that should contain the missing symbol: C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.0\mscorelib.dll

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This even happens with all options turned off

Russell D

Sorry for the delay, this never actually surfaced in new posts for some reason. You're not on the latest version - you'll need to upgrade to 6.13 for Standard assemblies to be supported.

brian.webb

Hi Russell. The beta version (6.13) has too much other stuff that's broken and we uninstalled it. Will this be fixed in a future, non-beta release? Any ideas when? Odd that it takes you guys literally years to support versions of .NET Core/Standard.

Russell D

Without knowing quite what you're referring to as broken, we're hoping v7 will be out shortly to remove the beta tag for Standard/Core support.

Yes I know its been a long time. I can't really do anything about that unfortunately.

Russell D

If you haven't downloaded it already v7 is available here: https://download.red-gate.com/checkforupdates/SmartAssembly/SmartAssembly_7.0.0.2020.exe.

Be sure to check the release notes and docs: https://documentation.red-gate.com/sa7.

brian.webb

Thanks Russell.

We're already looking at .NET Core 3 but we'll be able to use the update here for a short while.

Can you tell me if .NET Core 3 is on your roadmap? It turns out that we're not using your product at all because we're waiting on updates from you guys. It used to be that you shipped these releases shortly after .NET releases. This doesn't appear to be the case anymore?

If you could let me know if your team has a roadmap for these? If not or you don't know I would appreciate you letting us know. This will help us out with our planning.

Regards,

Brian

Russell D

Hi @brian.webb platform support is definitely high on the list but I don't know that we've planned much for Core 3 yet. Given how long it took us to support Core I don't want to promise unicorns.. I'll have a chat and come back to you.