oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy

looks like the fcs project needs updating as well

oh man the magic reflection going on in here was a primary source of blocking this: #7959

Just curious, what's the history of this thing?

It came into existence when I did the original coreclr port. If you remember netstandard was at about 1.3 at that point, and I think it had not even been released then. Anyway, the compiler had a huge dependency on msbuild, and the port to coreclr hadn't started then. Because ... project.json.

Anyway, tons of the compiler and FSI did resolution using msbuild API's we needed some of that code in our compiler just to even compile it.

Over the years we have abstracted things, simplified things in the compiler, and msbuild got ported to the coreclr. So ... I thought I would try to yeet it, and it worked.

In a future PR, will I will turn on the msbuildresolution resolver on the coreclr version of the compiler. It should help with replacing the desktop compiler.

Oh, our old friends project.json. I fondly recall my first PR here was involving that: #1225

Great to see this getting cleaned up!