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Restoring, Building, and Testing

When you run build.cmd or build.sh, the following happens

  • The latest .NET cli and runtime are downloaded and installed
  • NuGet packages are restored for the solution corefxlab.sln
    • To skip this step, add -Restore $false as an argument (build.cmd only)
  • The solution corefxlab.sln is built
  • Tests are run for each project in the tests folder
    • To skip this step, add -SkipTests $true as an argument (build.cmd only)

System.Text.Formatting

System.Text.Formatting APIs are similar to the existing StringBuilder and TextWriter APIs. They are designed to format values into text streams and to build complex strings. But these APIs are optimized for creating text for the Web. They do formatting with minimum GC heap allocations (1/6 of allocations in some scenarios) and can format directly to UTF8 streams. This can result in significant performance wins for software that does a lot of text

See more at https://github.com/dotnet/corefxlab/wiki/System.Text.Formatting

This package is now available as a NuGet package. See https://dotnet.myget.org/feed/dotnet-corefxlab/package/nuget/System.Text.Formatting

System.IO.FileSystem.Watcher.Polling

FileSystemWatcher like APIs that uses polling to monitor changes to the file system.

Writing Console Applications for the .NET Core

See more at https://github.com/dotnet/corefxlab/wiki/.NET-Core-Console


Find the rest of the preview nuget packages at - https://dotnet.myget.org/gallery/dotnet-corefxlab

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