Compiler Toolset NuPkgs

Summary

The compiler produces the Microsoft.Net.Compilers.Toolset NuPkg from all of Roslyn's main branches. When this NuPkg is installed it will override the compiler that comes with MSBuild with the version from the branch it was built in.

This package is meant to support the following scenarios:

1. Allows compiler team to provide rapid hot fixes to customers who hit a blocking issue. This package can be installed until the fix is available in .NET SDK or Visual Studio servicing.
2. Serves as a transport mechanism for the Roslyn binaries in the greater .NET SDK build process.
3. Allows customers to conduct experiments on various Roslyn builds, many of which aren't in an official shipping product yet.

This package is not meant to support using newer compiler versions in an older version of MSBuild. For example using Microsoft.Net.Compilers.Toolset 3.5 (C# 8) inside MSBuild 15 is explicitly not a supported scenario.

Customers who want to use the compiler as a part of their supported build infrastructure should use the Visual Studio Build Tools SKU ) or .NET SDK

NuPkg Installation

To install the NuPgk run the following:

> nuget install Microsoft.Net.Compilers.Toolset   # Install C# and VB compilers

Daily NuGet builds of the project are also available in our Azure DevOps feed:

https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/dnceng/public/_packaging/dotnet-tools/nuget/v3/index.json

Microsoft.Net.Compilers

The Microsoft.Net.Compilers NuPkg is deprecated. It is a .NET Desktop specific version of Microsoft.Net.Compilers.Toolset and will not be produced anymore after the 3.6.0 release. The Microsoft.Net.Compilers.Toolset package is a drop in replacement for it for all supported scenarios.