Referencing a .NET Standard library from a Windows Class Library

Question

There are two projects in my solution currently: a Windows Class Library (targeting .NET Framework 4.6.1) and another class library that targets .NE

Answer 1

Referencing .NET Standard in a project that targets the full framework does not work correctly yet. Instead, your project must target multiple frameworks.

If you are using the new tooling (with VS 2017), i.e. the csproj project format, you can set multiple target in the TargetFrameworks tag:

  
    netstandard1.3;net46
  

If you need to, you can set different dependencies for each target:

  
    netstandard1.3;net46
  

  
    
    
    
  

  
    
  

By default the NETStandard.Library is automatically added. If you want to remove it, use PackageReference Remove="NETStandard.Library"/>.