ASP.NET 5 Application Reference .NET 4.6 DLL

Question

I am trying to reference a .NET 4.6.1 dll from my ASP.NET 5 RC1 Update1 project. I cannot, and I think the reason is that it's referencing DNX 4.5.1. I think it should be referencing DNX46... How do I change that? Do I need to install DNX46 myself?

Answer 1

Check your project.json file, if you try and reference a .NET 4.6.1 class project or file, and your main project is set to .NET 4.5.1 , it wont let you. Just change it like this.

"frameworks": {
    "dnx461": { }
},