Microsoft.PowerShell.SDK incompatible with .NET Core since 7.1?

[DmitryMashkov-DM]

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Steps to reproduce

Microsoft.PowerShell.SDK 7.0.11:
Dependencies:
.NETCoreApp,Version=3.1
Microsoft.PowerShell.SDK 7.1.0+:
Dependencies:
net5.0

When building an app targeting .NET Core, PowerShell namespaces like System.Management.Automation are not available. Is it really impossible to use recent versions of SDK for .NET Core?

Expected behavior

Latest SDKs should target .NET Core

Actual behavior

.NET Core is not listed.

Error details

No response

Environment data

Windows 11, Visual Studio 2022.

Visuals

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[fMichaleczek]

@DmitryMashkov-DM pwsh.exe is produced with the PowerShell.SDK :) Please post a repository where I can see your project (minimal if possible). Because I think you miss something.

[DmitryMashkov-DM]

Yes, this must be something I miss because I just can't even write a single line with Core, only with .NET 6.
Choosing the right PowerShell NuGet package for your .NET project says:

A given Microsoft.Powershell.SDK version contains the concrete implementation of the same version of the PowerShell application; version 7.0 contains the implementation of PowerShell 7.0 and running commands or scripts with it will largely behave like running them in PowerShell 7.0.

Targeting Microsoft.Powershell.SDK from a .NET application allows you to integrate with all of PowerShell's implementation assemblies, such as System.Management.Automation, Microsoft.PowerShell.Management, and other module assemblies.

In fact: Microsoft.PowerShell.SDK lists only:
net6.0 net6.0-android net6.0-ios net6.0-maccatalyst net6.0-macos net6.0-tvos net6.0-windows
as supported.

The last version that listed .NET Core as supported was 7.0.12.

[jborean93]

PowerShell 7.1 is based on dotnet 5.0, 7.2 is based on dotnet 6.0 as per https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/install/powershell-support-lifecycle?view=powershell-7.2#release-history. If you want to target netcoreapp3.0 then you need to reference System.Management.Automation or Microsoft.PowerShell.SDK at the 7.0 versions.

[bergmeister]

yes, or PowerShellStandard. YMMV vary based on the APIs that you call. In the worst case you need to do conditional compilation for different ps versions.

[SeeminglyScience]

@DmitryMashkov-DM Probably worth mentioning that .NET Core was rebranded to just .NET as of 5.0

So .NET 5.0 is a continuation of .NET Core 3.x not .NET Framework 4.x

Super confusing for the transition period, but hopefully more clear in the long term.