On Unix systems, fallback to plaintext manipulation instead of using the DPAPI which is not available.
## PR Context
Currently, existing scripts that use SecureString cmdlets fail with an error complaining about crypt32.dll not being available. This change allows these cmdlets to be used, but there is no encryption of the string.
.Net already [states](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.security.securestring?view=netcore-2.1#remarks) that the contents of a SecureString are not encrypted on .Net Core.
Fix https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/1654
Co-authored-by: Travis Plunk <travis.plunk@microsoft.com>
PoshChan has been updated to use a new settings format so that authorized users are per action vs being global.
## PR Context
Since reminders don't incur much of a resource hit for PoshChan, there's no reason not to allow everyone to use it. See https://github.com/SteveL-MSFT/PoshChan-Bot for use instructions.
This PR optimizes the download tasks to reduce build times. After the change we see a order of magnitude reduction in download times for Windows package signing and also the compliance tasks.
In addition to that the PR also makes changes to organize the build artifacts in folders.
By not doing excessive amounts of extra work, formatting can be sped up quite significantly (about 8x faster).
The main change comes from adding new, more efficient, primitive to query an object for the existence of an instance member.
The formatting system has been checking for if an object has properties other than some decorated properties added by PS remoting, and it doesn't this by retrieving all properties which results in heavy allocations and wasted cycles.
By adding `GetFirstOrDefault` to `PSObject` and similar primitives to the underlying Adapters, we are able to return early, without having to get all properties back.
Improve type inference for foreach statement variables by:
Inferring strongly typed arrays from explicit array and array literal expressions when elements are of the same inferred type
Fix detection of foreach variable declaration. The previous logic was to check if the variable expression's start offset was after the end offset of the foreach statement, which will never be true in the body
Improve inference of what type the "Condition" of a foreach statement will enumerate as
Don't pass StringBuilder by reference (using out or ref). Otherwise, the CLR will expect the signature of this argument to be wchar_t ** instead of wchar_t *, and it won't be able to pin StringBuilder's internal buffer. Performance will be significantly degraded.
Removes appveyor stuff
## PR Context
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#8686 , appveyor removed
The `f` in Dockerfile is not uppercase, this breaks syntax highlighting for vscode on my client
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## PR Context
`DockerFile` breaks syntax highlighting as mentioned and described above.
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The NuGet build task should wait on uploads for DEB job to complete.
## PR Context
There is a race condition when the build for DEB is completed but the upload has not. If the NuGet build job starts it may not get all the packages needed for building nuget packages.
Refactor macOS CI so that tests run in parallel
- Also:
- Fix bootstrap issue where curl was failing for a month (so obviously not needed)
- Change Windows test stages to use PowerShell Core (where we can) to avoid compat issues
## PR Context
This allows running all tests in about the same about of clock time.
