project.json Not Found in Visual Studio 2017 RC Solution Explorer

Question

I did not find project.json in visual studio 2017 RC. Has this been removed in this version or am i missing something ? How do they store list of dependencies now if it is removed ?

Answer 1

Going forward, .Net Core is going to be based on msbuild, which means that it's going to use *.csproj instead of project.json. Package references are now also stored in the *.csproj file.

For more information, read Announcing .NET Core Tools MSBuild “alpha” on the .NET Blog and High level overview of changes in CLI Preview 3 in .NET Documentation.

For example, if you had this in your project.json:

"dependencies": {   "Microsoft.NETCore.App": {     "type": "platform",     "version": "1.0.0"   },   "Newtonsoft.Json": "9.0.1" } 

You will now have *.csproj containing:

<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.NETCore.App">   <Version>1.0.1</Version> </PackageReference> <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">   <Version>1.0.0-alpha-20161104-2</Version>   <PrivateAssets>All</PrivateAssets> </PackageReference> <PackageReference Include="Newtonsoft.Json">   <Version>9.0.1</Version> </PackageReference> 

Answer 2

Refer Given Link

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/project-json-to-csproj

Project.json

{   "buildOptions": {     "warningsAsErrors": true,     "nowarn": ["CS0168", "CS0219"],     "xmlDoc": true,     "preserveCompilationContext": true,     "outputName": "Different.AssemblyName",     "debugType": "portable",     "allowUnsafe": true,     "define": ["TEST", "OTHERCONDITION"]   } } 

Solution->Right Click ->Edit Project.csporj

<PropertyGroup>   <TreatWarningsAsErrors>true</TreatWarningsAsErrors>   <NoWarn>$(NoWarn);CS0168;CS0219</NoWarn>   <GenerateDocumentationFile>true</GenerateDocumentationFile>   <PreserveCompilationContext>true</PreserveCompilationContext>   <AssemblyName>Different.AssemblyName</AssemblyName>   <DebugType>portable</DebugType>   <AllowUnsafeBlocks>true</AllowUnsafeBlocks>   <DefineConstants>$(DefineConstants);TEST;OTHERCONDITION</DefineConstants> </PropertyGroup>