Work on issue #1729

README.md

@@ -48,13 +48,11 @@ How to build
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 Windows:
-- Install Visual Studio (minimum version: 2019.2) with the following components:
-  - Workload ".NET Desktop Development"
-  - .NET Framework 4.6.2 Targeting Pack (if the VS installer does not offer this option, install the [.NET 4.6.2 developer pack](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53321) separately)
+- Install Visual Studio (documented version: 16.3) with the following components:
+  - Workload ".NET Desktop Development". This includes by default .NET Framework 4.8 SDK and the .NET Framework 4.7.2 targeting pack, as well as the .NET Core 3 SDK (ILSpy.csproj targets .NET 4.7.2 and uses SDK-style project files across ILSpy.sln).
+  - Workload "Visual Studio extension development" (ILSpy.sln contains a VS extension project)
   - Individual Component "MSVC v142 - VS 2019 C++ x64/x86 build tools (v14.22)" (or similar)
     - The VC++ toolset is optional; if present it is used for `editbin.exe` to modify the stack size used by ILSpy.exe from 1MB to 16MB, because the decompiler makes heavy use of recursion, where small stack sizes lead to problems in very complex methods.
-- Install the [.NET Core SDK 2.2](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download)
-- Install the [.NET Core SDK 3](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core)
 - Check out the ILSpy repository using git.
 - Execute `git submodule update --init --recursive` to download the ILSpy-Tests submodule (used by some test cases).
 - Open ILSpy.sln in Visual Studio.
@@ -63,11 +61,11 @@ Windows:
   - Use the Visual Studio "Test Explorer" to see/run the tests
 
 Unix:
-- Make sure .NET Core 2.2 is installed (you can get it here: https://get.dot.net).
+- Make sure .NET Core 2.1 LTS Runtime is installed (you can get it here: https://get.dot.net).
 - Make sure [.NET Core SDK 3](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core) is installed.
 - Check out the repository using git.
 - Execute `git submodule update --init --recursive` to download the ILSpy-Tests submodule (used by some test cases).
-- Use `dotnet build Frontends.sln` to build the non-Windows flavors of ILSpy (cli and powershell core).
+- Use `dotnet build Frontends.sln` to build the non-Windows flavors of ILSpy (.NET Core Global Tool and PowerShell Core).
 
 (Visual Studio for Mac users only:)
 - Edit `\ICSharpCode.Decompiler\ICSharpCode.Decompiler.csproj`