Microsoft just announced that Entity Framework Core 2.0 will now run on .NET Standard 2.0.
.Net Standard 2.0 is compatible (if that\'s the right term here) with .NE
It seems that in order to include .NET Standard 2.0 libraries within a .NET 4.6.1 project you need to include the NetStandard.Library.NetFramework NuGet package.
Example of current version in the packages.config file: