This is required to workaround several limitations in the way the .NET Core SDK finds shared frameworks and targeting packs. It allow tests to use shared frameworks and targeting packs.
It also matches the patterns established in other aspnet and dotnet repos. This should reduce the friction required to adopt Arcade SDK.
## Changes
* This moves the default location of the .NET Core SDK installation into `$repoRoot/.dotnet`. This location was already in use for CI builds.
* Update the build step for Microsoft.AspNetCore.App to install the shared framework into the local copy of the .NET Core SDK
## Recommendations
* Use the "startvs.cmd" script to launch Visual Studio. This will set required environment variables to make VS happier than if you just double click the .sln file.
* Use "activate.sh/ps1" if you want to run `dotnet build`, `dotnet test` and other dotnet commands. These will set required environment variables, including PATH.
* I recommend removing %USERPROFILE%/.dotnet to your PATH variable if you had added it manually before. This will no longer match what build tools will install.
* `git clean -xfd -e .dotnet/` preserves the folder so you don’t have to re-download the SDK again.
Changes:
* Remove obsolete targets which are unnecessary now that this repo no longer builds git submodules in a separate build process
* Remove the need for static analysis of 'ArtifactInfo' items
* Simplify how the code signing task is configured
* Remove unused repo tasks
* Remove duplicate lists of external dependencies and packages to be produced
* Remove obsolete build definition
* Remove obsolete build script parameters
* Add VisualStudioSetupOutputPath
Chris Ross
Hao Kung
Nate McMaster
Pranav K
Casey Western