SMO and .Net Frameworks and nuget

As I upgraded my tool SMOscript to .Net version 4.5, things compiled and ran nicely again.

Only after a while I noticed the Build warnings

1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2110,5): warning MSB3274: The primary reference “Microsoft.SqlServer.Assessment, Version=1.100.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91, processorArchitecture=MSIL” could not be resolved because it was built against the “.NETFramework,Version=v4.6.1” framework. This is a higher version than the currently targeted framework “.NETFramework,Version=v4.5”.
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2110,5): warning MSB3275: The primary reference “Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Assessment, Version=15.100.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91, processorArchitecture=MSIL” could not be resolved because it has an indirect dependency on the assembly “Microsoft.SqlServer.Assessment, Version=1.100.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91” which was built against the “.NETFramework,Version=v4.6.1” framework. This is a higher version than the currently targeted framework “.NETFramework,Version=v4.5”.
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2110,5): warning MSB3274: The primary reference “Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Assessment, Version=15.100.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91, processorArchitecture=MSIL” could not be resolved because it was built against the “.NETFramework,Version=v4.6.2” framework. This is a higher version than the currently targeted framework “.NETFramework,Version=v4.5”.
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2110,5): warning MSB3274: The primary reference “Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SqlParser, Version=15.100.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91, processorArchitecture=MSIL” could not be resolved because it was built against the “.NETFramework,Version=v4.6.2” framework. This is a higher version than the currently targeted framework “.NETFramework,Version=v4.5”.

So whatever functionality is implemented in the Management and Assessment assemblies, they come with the nuget package (latest version 150.18208.0 in my case) and are also copied to the project output.

Apparently the package definition contains the requirement for Framework “>= 4.6.0”, allows installation in a 4.5 project, but really requires 4.6.2. Reminds me of the dependency inconsistencies back in 2013.

Anyway, upgrading the project to .Net 4.7 got rid of these warnings.