Flag usage of non-AnyCPU values for PlatformTarget in modern .NET applications
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The `PlatformTarget` field (and therefore Platform in MSbuild) only applies to .NET Framework and doesn't apply to modern .NET applications. For these applications, Platform can (should) always be `AnyCPU`. We should guide users to removing customizations to this property for projects that do not need it.
From Jan Kotas in dotnet/sdk#42344:
> PlatformTarget is left-over from .NET Framework. (PlatformTarget can only represent architectures that .NET Framework targets. It does not represent full range of platforms that .NET Core can target.)
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> If you are targeting current .NET, building everything as AnyCPU (ie hardcoding PlatformTarget to AnyCPU) all the time should work just fine. It is what we are doing in dotnet/runtime repo. We hardcode PlatformTarget to AnyCPU, even for platform-specific binaries.
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