Version 2.3.179 creates VB syntax error in ThisAssembly class

[mkaring]

The new version 2.3.179 creates invalid code for Visual Basic projects for the ThisAssembly class.

The produced code is the following:

<Assembly: System.Reflection.AssemblyVersionAttribute("…")>
<Assembly: System.Reflection.AssemblyFileVersionAttribute("…")>
<Assembly: System.Reflection.AssemblyInformationalVersionAttribute("…")>
#If NETSTANDARD Or NETFRAMEWORK Or NETCOREAPP Then
<System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCode("Nerdbank.GitVersioning.Tasks","2.3.179.31651")>
#End If
Partial Friend NotInheritable Class ThisAssembly
    …
End Class

This is not valid in Visual Basic, because it's illegal for anything but more attributes to be written between the declaration of a type (or a member for that matter) and the attribute that will be applied to it. This includes the #End If instruction.

The only way to build what you did here as valid code is to include the declaration of the class in the header. Like so:

<Assembly: System.Reflection.AssemblyVersionAttribute("…")>
<Assembly: System.Reflection.AssemblyFileVersionAttribute("…")>
<Assembly: System.Reflection.AssemblyInformationalVersionAttribute("…")>
#If NETSTANDARD Or NETFRAMEWORK Or NETCOREAPP Then
<System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCode("Nerdbank.GitVersioning.Tasks","2.3.179.31651")>
Partial Friend NotInheritable Class ThisAssembly
#Else
Partial Friend NotInheritable Class ThisAssembly
#End If
    …
End Class

[AArnott]

This is a vb compiler or .NET SDK issue. It only repros for .NET SDK style projects.
I filed dotnet/roslyn#36365

[AArnott]

Thanks for the report, @mkaring!