.NET Code System.Web install source

Question

Using Visual Studio Code on my mac book on sort of a Hello World type app. However, when I try to include a reference to System.Web, I get an alert stating:

The type or namespace name 'Web' does not exist in the namespace 'System' (are you missing an assembly reference?) [netcoreapp1.0] Unnecessary using directive. [netcoreapp1.0]

I obviously supposed to add a reference System.Web, but giving the relative newness of this, I'm not sure of which nuget package I should apply to the project.

Any advice will be helpful.

Answer 1

Removed System.Web dependence is one of the benefit of ASP.NET Core, that by the way allows to build and run cross-platform ASP.NET apps. From ASP.NET Core documentation :

ASP.NET Core has a number of architectural changes that result in a much leaner and modular framework. ASP.NET Core is no longer based on System.Web.dll. It is based on a set of granular and well factored NuGet packages.

Don't know about source with nuget package descriptions, but you can start from searching in https://github.com/aspnet for appropriate project