[wix-devs] Are there plans to upgrade the dtf to use later features of C#

Christopher Painter chrpai at iswix.com
Wed Apr 17 15:45:46 PDT 2019


It would depend on which projects right? Microsoft.deployment.windowsinstaller vs bits that only get called during build time. 

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> On Apr 17, 2019, at 5:36 PM, Rob Mensching via wix-devs <wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
> 
> Unless there is a really good reason, DTF should keep targeting .NET Framework 2.0. That provides extremely broad adoption with essentially no cost, unless the code becomes impossible to maintain. ".Count == 0" vs ".Any()" isn't a deal breaker. <smile/>
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-devs <wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of Sean Farrow via wix-devs
> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 12:52 PM
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> Cc: Sean Farrow <sean.farrow at seanfarrow.co.uk>
> Subject: [wix-devs] Are there plans to upgrade the dtf to use later features of C#
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Whilst looking at the dtf code earlier today, I noticed sevarl uses (0articularly in the makesfxca) of the following patter:
> 
> If (inputs.Count ==0)
> 
> This leads me to wonder whether there are plans to upgrade the .Net code to use things like Linq's Any operator?
> 
> I'm happy to raise an issue to look at things like this through out the codebase if it were required.
> 
> Also, what is the minimum .Net Framework Wix V4 is planning to support?
> Kind regards
> jSean.
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