Where do I find the Microsoft.DotNet.ApiDiff tool?

[bitbonk]

As of this PR by @ViktorHofer, the Microsoft.Dotnet.AsmDiff tool that we rely on no longer exists. I applaud the the decision to move it into the SDK. That has been my wish for a long time.

Unfortunately, I can't find this tool in the current SDKs, not even in .NET 10 Preview 6.

What are the plans here, when will we be able to use it and will there be documentation for it?

[ViktorHofer]

The ApiDiff tool is currently not marked as shipping so it doesn't go to nuget.org. You can find non-shipping prerelease versions here on this feed: https://dev.azure.com/dnceng/public/_artifacts/feed/dotnet10-transport/NuGet/Microsoft.DotNet.ApiDiff.Tool/overview/10.0.100-rc.1.25401.103

@ericstj are there any plans to release this tool package to nuget.org?

[bitbonk]

It seems that I do not have access rights to the https://dev.azure.com/dnceng/public/_artifacts/feed/dotnet10-transport/NuGet/ feed.

[ViktorHofer]

That's a public feed, I would be surprised if you don't have access. This is the feed URI: https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/dnceng/public/_packaging/dotnet10-transport/nuget/v3/index.json

Try downloading the tool via dotnet tool install Microsoft.DotNet.ApiDiff.Tool --prerelease --source https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/dnceng/public/_packaging/dotnet10-transport/nuget/v3/index.json

[ericstj]

For the moment the tool is provided as-is, similar to the AsmDiff tool it replaces. You're free to use it as the license allows, but we're not planning to publish to nuget.org and support it at like other parts of the product at this point.

[bitbonk]

@ericstj

For the moment the tool is provided as-is

Does this mean, we need to compile the tool ourselves? As mentioned above, us mere mortals don't seem to have access to the internal package feed.

[ViktorHofer]

@bitbonk please try again. I can access those links from a different machine, without signing in.

[bitbonk]

When I click on https://dev.azure.com/dnceng/public/_artifacts/feed/dotnet10-transport/NuGet/Microsoft.DotNet.ApiDiff.Tool/overview/10.0.100-rc.1.25401.103 or https://dev.azure.com/dnceng/public/_artifacts/feed/dotnet10-transport/NuGet/ in Edge it still wants me to login, which fails.

But running

dotnet tool install Microsoft.DotNet.ApiDiff.Tool --prerelease --add-source https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/dn
ceng/public/_packaging/dotnet10-transport/nuget/v3/index.json

actually does install the tool. Thank you for the feed URL.

Will we see a non-prerelease version (without the -rc.1.25401.103) of the tool on that feed once .NET 10 is final?