Visual Studio 2017 cannot update Microsoft.NETCore.App package (“Blocked by project”)

Question

I have a dotnet core app that is targetting Microsoft.NETCore.App 1.1.2. I created a test project to test against that project but when building I noticed this warning:

Answer 1

I had similar problem trying to install Entityframework.Core package in a .NET Core 2 Web app. To solve the issue, I've forced installation through Package Manager Console:

Install-Package Microsoft.NETCore.App -Version 2.0.5

(2.0.5 was the most recent version at the time)

I hope it's useful. Peace.