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Net6.0-windows(Winform project) cannot be referenced by .NETCore-App,Version=6.0(Xunit project)

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Describe the bug

A clear and concise description of what the bug is. When I use an xunit project to test winform project, But it will throws a NU1201 error

To Reproduce

This bug is easy to reproduce. Just create a winform project and xunit via visual studio 2022, and then add winform project reference to xunit project.

Exceptions (if any)

NU1201	Project WinFormsApp1 is not compatible with net6.0 (.NETCoreApp,Version=v6.0). Project WinFormsApp1 supports: net6.0-windows7.0 (.NETCoreApp,Version=v6.0)
Project '..\WinFormsApp1\WinFormsApp1.csproj' targets 'net6.0-windows'. It cannot be referenced by a project that targets '.NETCoreApp,Version=v6.0'.	TestProject1	C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\MSBuild\Current\Bin\amd64\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets	1806

Further technical details

Visual studio 2022 17.2.4
winform and xunit projects are both created by vs
dotnet sdk version 6.0.301

Issue Analytics

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Created a year ago
Comments:7

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Spydeecommented, Oct 31, 2022

I was able to resolve this by doing the following: Select the target project to test (the main app or a library usually) Press ALT-ENTER to open the project file. Note the version of windows being targeted.

Select the xUnit (or NUnit) test project. Press ALT-ENTER to open the project file. The Windows version is probably not selected. Select an OS to target.

That fixed the problem for me with NUnit and xUnit.

Spydee

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amilojkocommented, Jul 2, 2023

I was able to resolve this by doing the following: Select the target project to test (the main app or a library usually) Press ALT-ENTER to open the project file. Note the version of windows being targeted.

Select the xUnit (or NUnit) test project. Press ALT-ENTER to open the project file. The Windows version is probably not selected. Select an OS to target.

That fixed the problem for me with NUnit and xUnit.

Spydee

Oh gawd. This works.

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