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Disambiguate TargetFrameworkVersion and TargetFamework in help

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#1,805 opened on Mar 7, 2017

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(moved from dotnet/cli#5921)

The command line help suggests:

:: v1.6 is .NET Standard TFM
dotnet pack /p:TargetFrameworkVersion=v1.6 .

should work, however it errors out. Whereas TargetFramework switch does work:

dotnet pack /p:TargetFramework=v1.6 .

The ask is to clarify the difference in help (perhaps with a core-specific example):

dotnet msbuild -h
[snip]
        MSBuild MyApp.csproj /t:Clean
                             /p:Configuration=Debug;TargetFrameworkVersion=v3.5
::                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^  this one

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Update the help text to differentiate TargetFrameworkVersion and TargetFramework, providing correct examples.
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