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The runtime library is built as a portable class library, supporting: |
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The runtime library is built as a class library, supporting targets of: |
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- .NET 4.5 |
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- Windows 8 |
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- Windows Phone Silverlight 8 |
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- Windows Phone 8.1 |
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- .NET Core |
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- .NET 5 |
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- .NET 4.5+ (`net45`) |
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- .NET Standard 1.1 and 2.0 (`netstandard1.1` and `netstandard2.0`) |
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- .NET 5+ (`net50`) |
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You should be able to use Protocol Buffers in Visual Studio 2012 and |
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all later versions. This includes all code generated by `protoc`, |
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which only uses features from C# 3 and earlier. |
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which only uses features from C# 3 and earlier. When compiling generated |
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code with old compilers (before C# 7.2) you need to define the |
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`GOOGLE_PROTOBUF_REFSTRUCT_COMPATIBILITY_MODE` symbol in your project |
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so that the generated classes don't implement `IBufferMessage`, which uses |
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`ref struct` types. |
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Building |
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@ -42,12 +43,6 @@ in its implementation and runs tests under .NET 6. These features |
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have no impact when using the compiled code - they're only relevant |
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when building the `Google.Protobuf` assembly. |
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In order to run and debug the AddressBook example in the IDE, you must |
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install the optional component, ".Net Core 1.0 - 1.1 development tools |
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for Web" (as it's labelled in current versions of the VS2017 |
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installer), above and beyond the main .NET Core cross-platform |
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development feature. |
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Testing |
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.NET 3.5 |
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We don't officially support .NET 3.5. However, there has been some effort |
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to make enabling .NET 3.5 support relatively painless in case you require it. |
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There's no guarantee that this will continue in the future, so rely on .NET |
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3.5 support at your peril. |
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To enable .NET 3.5 support, you must edit the `TargetFrameworks` elements of |
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[src/Google.Protobuf/Google.Protobuf.csproj](src/Google.Protobuf/Google.Protobuf.csproj) |
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(and [src/Google.Protobuf.Test/Google.Protobuf.Test.csproj](src/Google.Protobuf.Test/Google.Protobuf.Test.csproj) |
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if you want to run the unit tests): |
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Open the .csproj file in a text editor and simply add `net35` to the list of |
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target frameworks, noting that the `TargetFrameworks` element appears twice in |
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the file (once in the first `PropertyGroup` element, and again in the second |
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`PropertyGroup` element, i.e., the one with the conditional). |
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We don't support .NET 3.5. It *used* to be feasible to build this library |
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targeting .NET 3.5, but a number of changes requiring newer runtime/framework |
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features have been added over time. While it would no doubt be *possible* to |
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rework the current implementation to allow most of the functionality to be built |
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in .NET 3.5, this would create an undue maintenance burden. |
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History of C# protobufs |
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The previous project differs from this project in a number of ways: |
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- The old code only supported proto2; the new code only supports |
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- The old code only supported proto2; the new code initially only supported |
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proto3 (so no unknown fields, no required/optional distinction, no |
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extensions) |
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extensions); since then proto2 support has been added |
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- The old code was based on immutable message types and builders for |
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them |
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- The old code did not support maps or `oneof` |
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