The dotnet-hosted Roslyn 2.10 build cannot start its VBCSCompiler server
under a current dotnet host, so with /shared every test compilation first
waited out the client's full 20-second new-server connection timeout
before falling back to a sub-second in-process compile. Since the 2.10
configurations were enabled on non-Windows (#3914), that added ~29
minutes to the Linux CI job and ~43 minutes on macOS: ~340 affected
tests at ~21s each, versus ~0.2s for the toolsets whose server works.
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The netcore-2.2 reference set consists of the shared framework's facade
assemblies split across many files, and vbc only binds special types
like System.Void from an assembly that defines them rather than
following type forwards, so without an implicit SDK it needs the same
reference list as the C# side. The VB runtime must come from the legacy
reference set: before .NET Core 3.0 there is no
Microsoft.VisualBasic.Core.dll and the core build of the VB runtime is
a trimmed-down subset (no UBound etc.). Referencing the target
framework's own Microsoft.VisualBasic facade alongside that -vbruntime
choice is a BC32210 identity conflict, so it is dropped from both the
default reference list and the ReferenceVisualBasic flag handling.
All of this applies only where vbc runs without its implicit desktop
SDK path, i.e. off Windows; on Windows vbc.exe keeps the plain
reference list that already worked.
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Compilation uses the .NET builds of the Roslyn toolsets (tasks/netcore*,
bincore csc.dll/vbc.dll launched through the dotnet host). ilasm/ildasm
options use the '-' prefix, which all platforms accept. The dotnet-hosted
compilers have no implicit references or SDK path: net40 compiles pass
mscorlib explicitly, and vbc gets -sdkpath, _MYTYPE=Empty and
-vbruntime:Microsoft.VisualBasic.Core.dll (the facade in the ref packs is
not followed for runtime helpers). The TestRunner gets a self-contained
build for the host platform.
Configurations depending on Windows-only tools or runtimes (legacy
csc/vbc, Roslyn 1.x/2.x, mcs, Force32Bit, executing net40 binaries) are
filtered from the matrix off-Windows via Tester.SupportedOnCurrentPlatform
or gated with [Platform("Win")]. PdbGen comparisons normalize document
name separators, and Correctness/Async uses Console.IsInputRedirected
instead of the Windows-only Console.CapsLock.
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* .NET 11 RC2 minimal changes
* Heuristic for transport feed Roslyn selection
* Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers from main NuGet feed
* Use the VS2026 image
* Switch all test projects to net11
* Extract constants
* Include vsix with plain nuget.config files
- Use custom test runner for correctness tests.
- Use .NET 6.0 framework for all Roslyn compiler tests.
- Disabled tests involving new string interpolation patterns.
Siegfried Pammer
Christoph Wille
Peter Crabtree
Daniel Grunwald
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