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What is the correlation between netcoreapp and netstandard?

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What is the correlation between netcoreapp and netstandard as referencing netstandard in netcoreapp does not work?

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Created 7 years ago
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aL3891commented, Jun 19, 2016

How do you mean? You should be able to reference a netstandard library in your netcoreapp application, otherwise something is wrong. can you post your project.json? also, what error are you getting?

To awnser your specific question, netstandard is for libraries and establishes a baseline that diffrent implementations(.net 4.5, .net 4.6, uwp and so on) can support. netcoreapp on the other hand is for .net core applications specifically. Using it you can use libraries from all the netstandard levels below netstandard 1.6

check out https://github.com/dotnet/core-docs/blob/master/docs/concepts/dotnet-standard-library.md for more details

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brentlyjdavidcommented, Jul 10, 2016

I may not have been very clear, sorry about that.

Maybe the way visual studio creates them is causing the confusion. I created a web app, saw the project.json file was saying the framwork is “netcoreapp1.0” then created a class library and the project.json’s framework node was “netstandard1.6”. When i attempt to reference that class library, and use it with some using statements, i get no intellesense and the build failed. however, like i said on the last comment, restarting vs fixed it, but i still had no intellensense, but at least it built and let me run it to test it.