Load in netstandard2.0 libraries to net461 project

Question

A quick google says this is possible , but I can't find out how?

I want to play around with SignalR-Core and service fabric. The latest Microsoft.AspNetCore.SignalR package is 1.0.0-alpha1-26359 and targets netstandard2.0

The current version of ServiceFabric's libraries 5.6.220 ( 2.6.220 for the other libraries) target net45 (I think?.. Anyone know how to quickly check what frameworks a nuget package targets?). From what I'm aware net45 libraries can run on any framework >= net45 so that shouldn't be a problem.

My service fabric application project targets net461 and I'm running VS2017 with whatever the latest update is as of today.

When I try and install the package with install-package Microsoft.AspNetCore.SignalR -pre it says install-package : Package Microsoft.AspNetCore.SignalR 1.0.0-alpha1-26359 is not compatible with net461 (.NETFramework,Version=v4.6.1). Package Microsoft.AspNetCore.SignalR 1.0.0-alpha1-26359 supports: netstandard2.0 (.NETStandard,Version=v2.0) install-package : Package Microsoft.AspNetCore.SignalR 1.0.0-alpha1-26359 is not compatible with net461 (.NETFramework,Version=v4.6.1). Package Microsoft.AspNetCore.SignalR 1.0.0-alpha1-26359 supports: netstandard2.0 (.NETStandard,Version=v2.0)

What am I missing here? Is there some csproj trickery I have to do that the powershell script/VS2017 isn't aware of yet? Will this only be a feature when .NET Core 2.0 is released proper?

Answer 1

Using VS2017-Update3 (Preview) made this work fine.

VS2017 15.3 includes support for this.