Due to .app bundles on OSX requiring me to preserve internal symlinks in Velopack, I've had to work on a cross-platform and cross-framework implementation for handling symlinks.

If you're only targeting .NET 6 and higher, you can stop reading here - because there's already great support in the framework via FileSystemInfo.LinkTarget, Directory.CreateSymbolicLink and other built-in methods.

If you need to target the Full .Net Framework, then read on...

In the world of software development, crafting the application is only half the battle. The other half? Getting your hard work onto the devices of users, which, let me tell you, is easier said than done. For those of us who have wrestled with the tangled web of software distribution, the headaches are all too familiar. It's like you're expected to be a jack-of-all-trades, mastering not one, not two, but a myriad of update frameworks and installers, each as diverse as the platforms and languages they cater to.

There are plenty of great options available for static site documentation generators, I wouldn't even bother trying to name them all.

The journey to find one that would work for Velopack was painful and took a few tries.