Eric StJohn

@JeremyKuhne can I get your check of the WindowsDesktop changes?

@carlossanlop does this look good to you, anything we need to do manually to this?

Callstack: ``` Unhandled exception. System.MissingMethodException: Constructor on type 'System.Byte[]' not found. at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(BindingFlags bindingAttr, Binder binder, Object[] args, CultureInfo culture) at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Object[] args) at System.Resources.Extensions.DeserializingResourceReader.DeserializeObject(Int32 typeIndex) at System.Resources.Extensions.DeserializingResourceReader._LoadObjectV2(Int32...

cc @michaelgsharp @tannergooding

You can pull nightly builds from the [NuGet feed](https://dev.azure.com/dnceng/public/_artifacts/feed/dotnet8) https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/dnceng/public/_packaging/dotnet8/nuget/v3/index.json. EG: ``

Sounds like a different issue. Here is the meaning of those bits for deflate (as is used here): https://[pkware.cachefly.net/webdocs/APPNOTE/APPNOTE_6.2.0.txt](https://pkware.cachefly.net/webdocs/APPNOTE/APPNOTE_6.2.0.txt) ``` (For Methods 8 and 9 - Deflating) Bit 2 Bit...

> Your findings here somehow deviate from my code tests with .net framework and the sample code in my original posting... Maybe the actual compression algo is not changed but...

Yes - open an issue in dotnet/runtime suggesting that the ZipArchive implementation either set bits 1 & 2 as some mapping from CompressionLevel, or expose and API so that callers...

It seems like the old `Al` task had a lot of user-provided extension points: https://github.com/dotnet/msbuild/blob/f88eb76608c0e4417aa066c20e698a9174855df0/src/Tasks/Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets#L4091-L4124C26 But the new CSC task gets most f it's input from the generated AssemblyInfo file...

On core the host writes breadcrumbs based on what's in the deps file, not what's in the assembly. @vitek-karas