How-to migrate Wpf projects to the new VS2017 format

Question

I\'m migrating my projects to the new visual studio 2017 format which is working nicely for all standard libraries only now I run into problems with my UI libraries where I

Answer 1

The above solution works for Wpf dll's, but I reverted it because Resharper and the Visual Studio designer where not functional anymore after this change. Mainly because they couldn't pair the xaml and the code-behind at design time. But the project compiles and works.

For a wpf executable you need to do the following:

  
    $(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\$(VisualStudioVersion)\Bin\Microsoft.CSharp.targets
    net451
    WinExe
    MyNamespace
    MyExe
    MyExe.ico
    app.manifest
    MyNamespace.App