The TargetFramework property has been an alias since .NET 5.
That means you could author projects with a target framework value like apple.
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
<PropertyGroup>
<TargetFrameworks>apple</TargetFrameworks>
<ImplicitUsings>enable</ImplicitUsings>
<Nullable>enable</Nullable>
</PropertyGroup>
<PropertyGroup>
<TargetFrameworkIdentifier Condition=" '$(TargetFramework)' == 'apple' ">.NETCoreApp</TargetFrameworkIdentifier>
<TargetFrameworkVersion Condition=" '$(TargetFramework)' == 'apple' ">v10.0</TargetFrameworkVersion>
</PropertyGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<PackageReference Include="NuGet.Configuration" Version="6.4.20" Condition=" '$(TargetFramework)' == 'apple' "/>
</ItemGroup>
</Project>With #5154, this is becoming even more important and pretty much necessary.
This will be a change in the table output where we'll go from say the following for a maui project to:
Project 'maui' has the following package references
[net9.0-android35.0]:
Top-level Package Requested Resolved
> Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Debug 10.0.0 10.0.0
> Microsoft.Maui.Controls 9.0.120 9.0.120
> Microsoft.NET.ILLink.Tasks (A) [9.0.12, ) 9.0.12
[net9.0-ios26.0]:
Top-level Package Requested Resolved
> Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Debug 10.0.0 10.0.0
> Microsoft.Maui.Controls 9.0.120 9.0.120
> Microsoft.NET.ILLink.Tasks (A) [9.0.12, ) 9.0.12
[net9.0-maccatalyst26.0]:
Top-level Package Requested Resolved
> Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Debug 10.0.0 10.0.0
> Microsoft.Maui.Controls 9.0.120 9.0.120
> Microsoft.NET.ILLink.Tasks (A) [9.0.12, ) 9.0.12
[net9.0-windows10.0.19041]:
Top-level Package Requested Resolved
> Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Debug 10.0.0 10.0.0
> Microsoft.Maui.Controls 9.0.120 9.0.120
to
Project 'maui' has the following package references
[net9.0-android]:
Top-level Package Requested Resolved
> Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Debug 10.0.0 10.0.0
> Microsoft.Maui.Controls 9.0.120 9.0.120
> Microsoft.NET.ILLink.Tasks (A) [9.0.12, ) 9.0.12
[net9.0-ios]:
Top-level Package Requested Resolved
> Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Debug 10.0.0 10.0.0
> Microsoft.Maui.Controls 9.0.120 9.0.120
> Microsoft.NET.ILLink.Tasks (A) [9.0.12, ) 9.0.12
[net9.0-maccatalyst]:
Top-level Package Requested Resolved
> Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Debug 10.0.0 10.0.0
> Microsoft.Maui.Controls 9.0.120 9.0.120
> Microsoft.NET.ILLink.Tasks (A) [9.0.12, ) 9.0.12
[net9.0-windows10.0.19041]:
Top-level Package Requested Resolved
> Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Debug 10.0.0 10.0.0
> Microsoft.Maui.Controls 9.0.120 9.0.120
Note that the real scenario that this enables is:
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
<PropertyGroup>
<TargetFrameworks>apple;banana</TargetFrameworks>
<ImplicitUsings>enable</ImplicitUsings>
<Nullable>enable</Nullable>
</PropertyGroup>
<PropertyGroup>
<TargetFrameworkIdentifier Condition=" '$(TargetFramework)' == 'apple' ">.NETCoreApp</TargetFrameworkIdentifier>
<TargetFrameworkVersion Condition=" '$(TargetFramework)' == 'apple' ">v10.0</TargetFrameworkVersion>
</PropertyGroup>
<PropertyGroup>
<TargetFrameworkIdentifier Condition=" '$(TargetFramework)' == 'banana' ">.NETCoreApp</TargetFrameworkIdentifier>
<TargetFrameworkVersion Condition=" '$(TargetFramework)' == 'banana' ">v9.0</TargetFrameworkVersion>
</PropertyGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<PackageReference Include="NuGet.Configuration" Version="6.4.20" Condition=" '$(TargetFramework)' == 'apple' "/>
</ItemGroup>
</Project>This doesn't even work at all today.
The TargetFramework property has been an alias since .NET 5.
That means you could author projects with a target framework value like apple.
With #5154, this is becoming even more important and pretty much necessary.
This will be a change in the table output where we'll go from say the following for a maui project to:
to
Note that the real scenario that this enables is:
This doesn't even work at all today.