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Extend build-time RuntimeAssets checks to include StringTools and NuGet APIs

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Start with the RuntimeAssets checks in src/MSBuildLocator/build/Microsoft.Build.Locator.targets at lines 4-18. Determine the StringTools and NuGet libraries that hosted MSBuild instances are expected to provide, then verify that the checks cover them and assess whether the dependencies of a named item can be represented data-driven.

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Description

We need to expand the cases covered by https://github.com/microsoft/MSBuildLocator/blob/d438732d907f116926d4fa49a1e4e2f3c53972b4/src/MSBuildLocator/build/Microsoft.Build.Locator.targets#L4-L18 to include the Stringtools library and NuGet libraries that the hosted instances of MSBuild that users bind to with Locator are expected to provide.

It would be ideal if there was some data-driven way to say "all of the dependencies of THING_X must be RuntimeAssets=exclude" to prevent these gaps in the future.

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