branding update

[Forgind]

Branding update for 17.0.

I skipped the readme changes, since I what we normally put would not be true at this point, since we haven't forked for 16.11 or even 16.10, and changes in main (we expect) will go into 16.10/11 still.

@olgaark, should I change ..\..\..\Microsoft\VC\v160\Microsoft.Build.CPPTasks.Common.dll to ..\..\..\Microsoft\VC\v170\Microsoft.Build.CPPTasks.Common.dll?

Are there any other changes that need to be made for a major version release?

[olgaark]

No, please don't change v160 to v170 now - v170 does not exist yet (but will in Preview 2 and more msbuild.exe.config changes will be needed then)

[benvillalobos]

Compared it to #6087, looks fine to me pending @olgaark 's approval.

[benvillalobos]

Can app.config files read properties from the build? Or is it possible to define some variable that will update each app.config? (not a blocking question)

[olgaark]

You still need codebase, I believe
<codeBase version="17.0.0.0" href="..\..\..\Microsoft\VC\v160\Microsoft.Build.CPPTasks.Common.dll" />

[olgaark]

On the other hand, how about just removing this redirect? It won't be needed for 17.0

[olgaark]

Yes, please remove Microsoft.Build.CPPTasks.Common from msbuild.exe.config at all. We don't want a redirect between major versions (and I plan to investigate if we can get rid of the redirect between minor versions as well)

[Forgind]

Should we leave it but make it not do anything (that is, oldVersion="17.0.0.0-17.0.0.0") rather than removing it entirely? I'm thinking of when we start updating it, at which point it would be nicer to have the version already there and be able to just modify it.

[olgaark]

No, please remove. My hope is that we won't need to add it again

[olgaark]

if you are removing it, you need to remove the whole segment

<dependentAssembly>
          <assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft.Build.CPPTasks.Common" culture="neutral" publicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
          <bindingRedirect oldVersion="16.0.0.0-17.0.0.0" newVersion="17.0.0.0" />
          <codeBase version="17.0.0.0" href="..\..\Microsoft\VC\v160\Microsoft.Build.CPPTasks.Common.dll" />
        </dependentAssembly>