Add .NET 6 for macOS virtual environments

[AlexSrizhevskiy]

Tool name

.NET 6

Tool license

free

Add or update?

• Add
• Update

Desired version

.NET 6

Approximate size

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Brief description of tool

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URL for tool's homepage

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Provide a basic test case to validate the tool's functionality.

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Virtual environments affected

• Ubuntu 18.04
• Ubuntu 20.04
• macOS 10.15
• macOS 11
• Windows Server 2016
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2022

Can this tool be installed during the build?

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Tool installation time in runtime

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Are you willing to submit a PR?

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[maxim-lobanov]

Hello @AlexSrizhevskiy , have you considered using actions/setup-dotnet task? It is recommended approach to get specific .NET Core version

[mikhailkoliada]

Hi @AlexSrizhevskiy, please use the setup-dotnet task for the time being as recommended by @maxim-lobanov .Net 6 will be available later this year with the VS 2022 for macOS.

[mattjohnsonpint]

I don't understand this decision. If .NET 6 SDK is kept updated for Ubuntu (see @Steve-Glass 's comment on the related issue here: #4424 (comment)), then why would you not do the same for macOS? We don't need Visual Studio for Mac to use .NET on macOS.

In particular, we need .NET SDK version 6.0.300 on the macOS environments, to build .NET MAUI applications for net6.0-ios and net6.0-maccatalyst targets. (Specifically on macos-12 environment, because we also need the Xcode 13.3 dependency.)

Sure, I can use setup-dotnet to put 6.0.300 on the image, but I shouldn't have to.