David Kean

I would much prefer the communication to be something as simple as: - We get a list of missing packages - We pass these to an API (from NuGet) and...

@dsplaisted Given SDKs can refer to other SDKs, how will MSBuild be able to provide a complete set of MissingMSBuildSDK items to avoid the load project -> prompt -> load...

@marcpopMSFT Evaluation is already done off the UI thread in CPS, so moving the download off the UI thread does not resolve the problem. However, VS in lots of circumstances,...

I've seen that, but most traces I've seen around this are caused by the network hit. For example, for the original bug against msbuild, the symptoms that led me to...

@dmonroym: Was this completed?

Please also test: https://github.com/dotnet/project-system/issues/3637 when fixing this.

Does this mean that this is fixed, but only if we opt into the new behavior?

Okay, we sat down and looked at this. I can see what's going on; we're only factoring in _CopyToOutputDirectory_ for items that come the same project's evaluation, which doesn't include...

We had to revert the fix as it caused a regression.

@drewnoakes We cheated for transitive project references and put them in the assets file. I would consider a similar approach for this.