Reference a .NET Core Library in a .NET 4.6 project

Question

Maybe I have a miss understanding of what \".NET Core Library\" means, but when I try to add a .NET Core Library in a .NET 4.6 Assembly using Visual Studio 2015, I get the e

Answer 1

I found a very simple solution that works well, if you don't mind hardcoding a reference to either Debug or Release. You just manually add a reference to your xproj in the csproj file. Here is how you do it:

1. Ensure that your csproj is using at least one nuget package. Most projects do, so this is not a problem.
2. In Visual Studio, unload your csproj project
3. In Visual Studio, right-click on the csproj file and choose "edit"

4. Find the part in the csproj project file where you are referencing a nuget package. Ah... here's one:

        
          ..\packages\Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Common.1.3.0\lib\net45\Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.dll
          True
       
   

5. Copy this and modify it to reference the DLL produced by your xproj project, like so:

     
        ..\HighFive.Server.Web\bin\Debug\net461\HighFive.Server.Web.dll
        True
    
   

6. Save and close the csproj file
7. Reload the project
8. Rebuild all
9. Presto!

Regarding hardcoding either a Debug or Release reference: For unit test projects, this is not a problem since you typically execute unit tests in debug mode. I am sure this could be made even smarter using MSBuild parameters to avoid the hardcoding but I didn't need to do it yet.