Ship .NET Framework compatibility pack

[danmoseley]

A meta package to include all the libraries released from CoreFX in 2.0 that aren't already included in the Microsoft.NETCore.App package (aka the shared framework) plus a series of new ports and necessary facades. Some are Windows only currently. Aim to release at least a complete preview in November.

Spec

dotnet/designs#16

Previously shipped packages:

Package ID	Link	Windows Only
Microsoft.Win32.Registry	NuGet	Yes
Microsoft.Win32.Registry.AccessControl	NuGet	Yes
System.CodeDom	NuGet
System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager	NuGet
System.Data.SqlClient	NuGet
System.Drawing.Common	NuGet	No
System.IO.FileSystem.AccessControl	NuGet	Yes
System.IO.Packaging	NuGet
System.IO.Pipes.AccessControl	NuGet	Yes
System.IO.Ports	NuGet
System.Reflection.Context	NuGet
System.Security.AccessControl	NuGet	Yes
System.Security.Cryptography.Cng	NuGet	Yes
System.Security.Cryptography.Pkcs	NuGet	Yes
System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData	NuGet	Yes
System.Security.Cryptography.Xml	NuGet	Yes
System.Security.Permissions	NuGet
System.Security.Principal.Windows	NuGet	Yes
System.ServiceModel.Duplex	NuGet
System.ServiceModel.Http	NuGet
System.ServiceModel.NetTcp	NuGet
System.ServiceModel.Primitives	NuGet
System.ServiceModel.Security	NuGet
System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController	NuGet
System.Text.Encoding.CodePages	NuGet	No
System.Threading.AccessControl	NuGet	Yes

New Packages:

ID		Remaining work	UWP?	Unix?
	Updated Shims package	Authoring
14529	System.Runtime.Caching	Test, Pkg	not yet	not yet
14762	System.Management (WMI)	Tests, Pkg	no	not yet
3906	System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter	PR	no	no
2089	System.DirectoryServices	Pkg	no	no
2089	System.DirectoryServices.Protocols	Pkg	no	not yet
2089	System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement	Pkg	no	no
	System.ServiceModel.Syndication	Tests, Pkg	?	yes
6913	System.Diagnostics.EventLog	DONE	no	no
11545	System.Drawing	DONE	no	yes
11857	System.ComponentModel.Composition (MEF1)	Test, Pkg	?	yes
13035	System.Data.Odbc	DONE	no	yes
19771	System.Data.DatasetExtensions	DONE	yes	yes
6024	System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController & ServiceBase	DONE	no	no
5766	System.Xaml	No plans	--	--
8723	System.ServiceModel (WCF) Message Security	No plans	--	--
6920	System.Addin	No plans	--	--
2394	System.Activities (WF)	No plans	--	--

[danmoseley]

This is now shipped in preview status: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/11/16/announcing-the-windows-compatibility-pack-for-net-core/

Still remains to finish and include MEF1, and also to ship marked stable.

[dasMulli]

It would be great to know which libraries are supposed to work on which version/edition of windows.

For example, even though System.DirectoryServices is marked "windows only", it does not work on nano server (at least the docker image for nano server - fails with a DllNotFoundException for activeds.dll).
This raises questions like "does drawing work on nano server?" which I find myself unable to answer from the existing material (understandably though, since it has just been previewed).

[danmoseley]

@terrajobst @pjanotti have we considered updating https://github.com/dotnet/platform-compat to allow it to be fine grained down to the SKU level?

@dasMulli I don't believe Nano has GDI+ so Drawing will not work. It does not surprise me that DS does not work. At least when stuff doesn't work, it will usually fail right away, typically with DllNotFound or PlatformNotSupported or NotSupported etc.

[pjanotti]

For the Platform-Compat to go to that level it will need some extra information in project files, which it already uses for some stuff, so, in principle it seems doable. I opened an issue to consider this possibility (dotnet/platform-compat#80).

[tarekgh]

@danmosemsft is this not done yet?

[danmoseley]

Not until we ship 2.1, as that is the point at which it will get marked stable in nuget.

[danmoseley]

Probably no need to keep this open. We are on track to mark this stable aligned with 2.1 release. No more work to do