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| Summary: CAST AIP 8.3.5 introduces a number of features and changes as listed below. To view the impacts of these changes on analysis results, see: Changes in results post upgrade. |
Please see Technology coverage changes in CAST AIP 8.3.x for more detailed discussion of this subject.
When using the the .NET Analyzer ≤ 1.0.x with CAST AIP ≥ 8.3.5 and if your source code contains .NET Core 2.0 / .NET Standard 2.0 projects, then these projects will be discovered during the packaging in the CAST Delivery Manager Tool. This is due to a change in the existing .NET discoverers for the .NET Analyzer that are embedded in the CAST Delivery Manager Tool. These discoverers have been modified in CAST AIP ≥ 8.3.5 to take into account .NET Core 2.0 / .NET Standard 2.0 projects in preparation for .NET Core 2.0 /.NET Standard 2.0 analysis support in the forthcoming version 1.1.x of the .NET Analyzer.
The CAST Delivery Manager Tool will discover .NET Core 2.0 / .NET Standard 2.0 projects when the .csproj or .vbproj files contains the following:
<Project sdk=""> ... </Project> |
Analysis of . NET Core 2.0 / .NET Standard 2.0 projects when using the extension ≤ 1.0.xAll source code in the root folder (and any sub-folders) selected for the package will be included in the project.
Analysis of these projects/Analysis Units will be successful (i.e. no errors), however, the analysis will be incomplete:
| See also: Changes in results post upgrade - 8.3.5 |
The upgrade batch files (see Automating the CAST AIP Upgrade process) has been modified as follows:
A new option has been added to the Add version dialog box called Discoverers to activate. This option is visible when you are adding a new Version based on an existing version. It allows you to specify the discoverers you would like to enable in the existing packages that will be copied into the new Version (in normal circumstances, newly installed discoverers are not enabled by default for existing packages (only for new packages)):
You can enter either any of the following (if you enter multiple discoverers, separate them with a comma):
Note that when the "HTML5 project" option is used, the feature is specifically targeted for CAST AIP upgrades when you are generating the post-upgrade consistency snapshot and need to enable specific discoverers in existing packages to maintain consistency. |
An new parameter has been added to the AutomateDelivery option, called -discoverers. This allows you to specify the discoverers you would like to enable in the existing packages that will be copied into the new Version. You can select "HTML5 project" (Web Files Discoverer) and "XML scanner" (DMT XML Scanner). See Automating CAST Management Studio tasks for more information.
Note that when the "HTML5 project" option is used, the feature is specifically targeted for CAST AIP upgrades when you are generating the post-upgrade consistency snapshot and need to enable specific discoverers in existing packages to maintain consistency. |
A new field is displayed at Version level to indicate the very first time the packaging action was run on the Version. If the Version has not yet been packaged, then nothing is displayed. This field will always show the very first date/time the package action was run on the Version - even if multiple package actions have been run:
