Project.json no longer works

[olivd]

You created a breaking change and pushed it out as minor release.

Bring back the project.json, down with the csproj

[svick]

You created a breaking change and pushed it out as minor release.

It was not a minor release, it was the first non-preview release of the SDK. The last version of the SDK that supported project.json was Preview 2. csproj is fully supported since SDK 1.0.

Bring back the project.json, down with the csproj

Sorry, that's just not going to happen. If there ever was a possibility to convince Microsoft of this, we're way past that point now. Especially considering that doing it now would actually be a breaking change in released product.

Do you have any specific suggestions about how csproj could be improved?

[olivd]

Well thanks for replying. I think it's a little cheeky to say that 1.0.3 was not a production release when you flagged it as a stable long term support release. Anyway. How about making .csproj support both xml and json equivalents ?

[svick]

I think it's a little cheeky to say that 1.0.3 was not a production release when you flagged it as a stable long term support release.

.Net Core 1.0.3 was a stable release, but that's just the runtime, it doesn't contain the project.json tools. .Net Core SDK Preview 2, which actually let you use project.json, was not a stable release. It is kind of confusing that there is a difference between the two, but that's the way it is.

How about making .csproj support both xml and json equivalents?

Does that mean you want JSON, but not necessarily project.json? Then you might be interested in these two issues: dotnet/msbuild#16, dotnet/msbuild#613.

Though the former one was closed with:

We’re strongly considering more concise and expressive markup languages for future build engines. For MSBuild itself, the existing tooling ecosystem (Visual Studio and third-party) is too tied down to the existing XML format. We feel that the risks involved with a change in build-specification representation outweigh the benefits.

[olivd]

Okay thanks for that