Improved Pandoc handling on dev environments (#634)

app/SharedTools/RIDExtensions.cs

@@ -1,7 +1,39 @@
+using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
+
 namespace SharedTools;
 
 public static class RIDExtensions
 {
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Detects the current Runtime Identifier (RID) at runtime based on OS and architecture.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// This method should be preferred over reading the RID from metadata,
+    /// as the metadata may contain stale values in development environments.
+    /// </remarks>
+    /// <returns>The detected RID for the current platform.</returns>
+    public static RID GetCurrentRID()
+    {
+        var isWindows = RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.Windows);
+        var isLinux = RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.Linux);
+        var isMacOS = RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.OSX);
+        var arch = RuntimeInformation.OSArchitecture;
+
+        return (isWindows, isLinux, isMacOS, arch) switch
+        {
+            (true, _, _, Architecture.X64) => RID.WIN_X64,
+            (true, _, _, Architecture.Arm64) => RID.WIN_ARM64,
+
+            (_, true, _, Architecture.X64) => RID.LINUX_X64,
+            (_, true, _, Architecture.Arm64) => RID.LINUX_ARM64,
+
+            (_, _, true, Architecture.X64) => RID.OSX_X64,
+            (_, _, true, Architecture.Arm64) => RID.OSX_ARM64,
+
+            _ => RID.NONE,
+        };
+    }
+
     public static string AsMicrosoftRid(this RID rid) => rid switch
     {
         RID.WIN_X64 => "win-x64",