Can I use .net core on visual studio 2013

Question

Is, or will .net core be available to use on visual studio 2013? Or it will be available only on visual studio 2015?

Thanks

Answer 1

Yes, it's possible to build against the .NET Core 5 contracts in Visual Studio 2013 by creating a Portable Class Library that targets .NET Framework 4.5 and Windows 8. You'll need to manually edit the .csproj file and add the following.

<PropertyGroup>     <ImplicitlyExpandTargetFramework>false</ImplicitlyExpandTargetFramework> </PropertyGroup> 

Then install the System.Runtime NuGet package and other .NET Core 5 packages.

The resulting assembly will be able to execute on any .NET Core 5-based framework including .NET Framework 4.6, ASP.NET 5 & .NET Native.

Note, this is the same technique used to build the .NET Core assemblies in the corefx repository.