v2.4.0-preview20180814

New Features:

• Added ability to convert type to same type or one of the base types #1110
• Added support for customization of dependency injection at feature level via a runtime plugin event to raise feature dependencies #1141
• Allow marking steps as Obsolete and have a configurable behavior for it #1140
• IGherkinParser and IGherkinParserFactory interfaces added to support Gherkin Parser pluggability #1143
• Assist: remove accents from column headers and property names when comparing objects to a table #1096
• Added NUnit current TestContext scenario container registration. See #936
• Array & List support for strings and enums when instantiating class from Specflow table #1018
• MSBuild: Experimental support for deleting code-behind files on clean and rebuild when MSBuild #1167, #1208
• MSBuild: Experimental support for Net.SDK project system, only for targeting desktop framework, .net core is supported and won't work #1223

Fixes:

• Expose ScenarioInfo.Description parameter to get from context #1078
• Resolved loading plugins multiple times. Issue: #888
• Comparing Guid with string using case insensitivity to prevent throwing unnecessary exceptions #1145
• MSBuild Generation: Visual Studio Incremental Build does not always regenerate files on feature file changes #1167
• Fixed test body generation order for outline tests #1168
• Update to Gherkin 5.1.0
• Fix XUnit ITestOutputhelper and MSTest TestContext container registrations so that they are available in BeforeScenario hooks. See #936
• fixed CompareToSet not flagging missing rows correctly with dash #1098