older releases / other target versions

[Alex-ley]

Just wanted to check that this repo was the one that creates this nuget package? https://www.nuget.org/packages/MessageBoxEx/

If so, you had some more recent commits that look like they start to target newer versions of .NET (core) and the README says:

NEW! - Added .NET 5.0 WinForms projects. You can now use these projects without the .NET Framework.

on nuget I only see v1.0.0 and don't see any older versions or versions targeting other (older) frameworks.

TLDR; This package looks awesome 👏 and is exactly what I need. Would you be able to publish some older package versions and/or versions targeting other (older) frameworks? Alternatively, could you point me to a git commit when this code did work with older Frameworks? I looked for version tags and branches but couldn't see any so I am not 100% sure how far I should go back etc. Thanks for any help/advice. I could end up creating this sort of custom message box myself but it seems a shame to reinvent the wheel. I could potentially (after some direction) help and submit a PR to this repo to enable publishing old versions of the package or versions targeting other (older) frameworks if that would be useful.

What I tried:

I tried to use v1.0.0 in a VSTO add-in WinForms class library targeting .NET Framework v4.6.1 and due to client IT requirements I cannot currently change that. Unfortunately, v1.0.0 of your package failed initially due to missing System.Drawing.Bitmap

Reference required to assembly System.Drawing.Common, Version=4.0.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=cc7b13ffcd2ddd51 containing the type 'Bitmap'. Add one to your project.

My understanding is that in .NET Framework you have System.Drawing.Bitmap but in .NET (core) 3.1/5.0/6.0 you have System.Drawing.Common.Bitmap and this is probably causing the issue.

I tried to install the https://www.nuget.org/packages/System.Drawing.Common/4.7.0 package which seems to be the same version of the assembly required by your package but then I got type name conflicts and other issues etc.

So I ended up with this in my .vbproj file

<Reference Include="System.Drawing.Common, Version=4.0.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=cc7b13ffcd2ddd51">
  <HintPath>..\packages\system.drawing.common.4.7.0\runtimes\win\lib\netcoreapp3.0\System.Drawing.Common.dll</HintPath>
</Reference>

Which then gave me this issue:

and this issue:

Import of type 'MarshalByRefObject' from assembly or module 'System.Runtime.dll' failed

This makes me think v1.0.0 of your package (and/or .NET (core) 3.1) don't play nicely with .NET Framework 4.6.1. Also, after reading this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42009086/the-type-marshalbyrefobject-is-defined-in-an-assembly-that-is-not-referenced it sounds like my attempts to "fix" this are not getting me anywhere.

My request: would you be able to publish some older package versions and/or versions targeting other (older) frameworks? Alternatively, could you point me to a git commit when this code did work with older Frameworks? I looked for version tags and branches but couldn't see any so I am not 100% sure how far I should go back etc. I could potentially contribute to this repo if useful.

Thanks a lot.