How to reference Microsoft.Office.Core (office.dll) in .Net Core

Question

How to reference Microsoft.Office.Core (office.dll)

(C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Visual Studio Tools for Office\PIA\Office12\office.dll)

in .Net Core (full framework)?

Answer 1

So this is a bit of a known pain point in the current tooling. For now, you need to pack the DLL into a nuget package, add the location of that package to your nuget sources and install it that way. It's a bit of work for a DLL you don't maintain, but it seems to be working.