Use Visual Studio 2017 with .Net Core SDK 2.0

Question

Can i open a core 2.0 project in Visual Studio 2017?

I've installed the latest dotnet-core (2.0.0-preview2-005840) and created a core 2.0 console-app.

mkdir dn2cli cd dn2cli dotnet new console dotnet restore 

• Open console.csproj in Visual Studio 2017 with "open project"
• Clean and Build Solutions
• i get several erros
  • amongs others:

Unable to resolve 'Microsoft.NETCore.App (>= 2.0.0)' for '.NETCoreApp,Version=v2.0'.

So. Is it just not supported at the moment or am i missing something?

c:\Temp>dotnet --info  .NET Command Line Tools (2.0.0-preview2-005840)  Product Information:  Version:            2.0.0-preview2-005840  Commit SHA-1 hash:  8f2fcef544  Runtime Environment:  OS Name:     Windows  OS Version:  10.0.14393  OS Platform: Windows  RID:         win10-x86  Base Path:   C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\sdk\2.0.0-preview2-005840\  Microsoft .NET Core Shared Framework Host    Version  : 2.0.0-preview1-002061-00   Build    : 2b70ec9c3b014af0c2a5f45de0e5b73a1ae51c09 

Answer 1

Update:

There is now a VS 2017 15.3 preview that resolves this issue. Starting with VS 15.3, Visual Studio carries an MSBuild SDK resolver that determines which version of the CLI SDK a project would use (e.g. if a global.json sets the version) and uses it's MSBuild targets so new previews are picked up by VS.

Original:

You can modify your environment to get VS 2017 support for the unreleased 2.0 tooling by setting the MSBuildSdksPath as described in https://github.com/aspnet/Announcements/issues/231 so that VS picks up the build logic from the CLI.

Answer 2

The Visual Studio .NET Core tools were just released in March, yet the 2.0 preview you are using was released in April. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/03/07/announcing-net-core-tools-1-0/ You'll need to wait for an update to the .NET Core Tools before you can use Visual Studio with .NET Core 2.0