This change splits the Workspaces layer into two parts, mirroring the Portable/Desktop split that the compilers did. The core parts of the Workspaces layer (managing documents and projects, formatting, some refactoring, code fixes) is kept in the portable subset, with a few non-portable pieces remaining, notably MSBuild support.

This change has a major impact on how MEF now works in Roslyn. Traditional MEF (“MEFv1”) is not portable, and so we must move the Workspaces layer over to using the Microsoft.Composition NuGet package (“MEFv2”) which is. The APIs are distinct in that each has its own namespace, but the concepts are more or less identical. It requires some care though: the workspaces layer is simple in that it only references MEFv2, but higher layers have to reference both versions to use metadata attributes. Exports using metadata attributes from the editor (say, ContentTypeAttribute) must use MEFv1 attributes to export, whereas exports for the workspaces layer must use MEFv2 attributes. The rule is subtle and yet simple, and so a diagnostic is provided which catches any offenses to prevent confusion.

This also has some impact in how we create MEF hosts: if you wish to host just the base workspaces layer, we can use MEFv2 to compose everything. The HostServices implementation (MefV1HostServices) that consumes a MEFv1 ExportProvider. If you’re in Visual Studio, you can use this implementation to get the full set of host services provided in Visual Studio.

Otherwise, most of the changes in here are minor: we react to some APIs that have been moved/renamed in the portable subset we are targeting, and also align our various exception helper utilities with the compiler’s precedent. (changeset 1349276)

semantic version tarcking service tracks semantic version/project version pair changes so that we can retrieve semantic version across VS sessions.

unlike project version, semantic version can't be recovered across VS sessions since our version system is based on filestamp of relevant files. due to this, any persisted data from previous VS session can't be reused if data's integrity can be only validated by semantic version.

this service provides a way to tranform semantic version to project version which can be recovered and use it to validate persisted data. this should let us to increase cases where we can re-use persisted data.
 (changeset 1339280)

FeaturePacks have changed to become HostServices.
IWorkspaceServiceProvider has become HostWorkspaceServices
ILanguageServiceProvider has become HostLanguageServices

HostWorkspaceServices can be accessed directly from Workspace.Services.
HostLanguageServices can be accessed directly from Project.LanguageServices.

Some of the existing workspace and language services have been made public. (changeset 1226729)