Latest NETStandard.Library 2.0 NuGet package contains malformed XML docs

[saucecontrol]

This was reported in #666 but the issue was closed since the underlying problem had been resolved for 2.1 dev builds. However, the latest available 2.0 package on NuGet (version 2.0.3) still has a malformed netstandard.xml. Is it possible to get an updated 2.0 package published with corrected docs?

[saucecontrol]

@ericstj do you know who owns this package? I can't tell if this repo has an actual triage process in place, and this has sat for quite a while without a response.

[ericstj]

@terrajobst @Anipik can you have a look?

[redoz]

Is there a way I could rebuild this file myself using the updated tooling? Or a pre-release package somewhere with the updated xml?

[ericstj]

You could just grab the XML from NETStandard2.1. VS uses metadata as source of truth for API, so "more" API in the XML file is not a problem. Here's where it is installed on my machine: C:\Program Files\dotnet\packs\NETStandard.Library.Ref\2.1.0\ref\netstandard2.1\netstandard.xml ; https://www.nuget.org/packages/NETStandard.Library.Ref/

[redoz]

@ericstj Thanks, I'll give that a try!

Edit: It worked out nicely, thanks again!

[ViktorHofer]

@Anipik @terrajobst this was just again reported by @KirillOsenkov in dotnet/runtime#39938.

[saucecontrol]

@terrajobst, it looks like @Anipik, who was assigned to this, is no longer with MSFT. Any chance of getting someone else assigned? With NS2.0 being a relevant target for the foreseeable future, it would be really nice if we had valid docs in the ref package.

[terrajobst]

We decided to close this as won't fix.

It seems IntelliSense is resilient to this, it's only affecting folks who manually parse/process the documentation file. They can use the .NET Standard 2.1 package as a workaround.