Is this meant to work with dotnet core? (System.Text.Encoding.CodePages dependency error)

I’m new to F# so this may well be user error…

Description

I get the following error when trying to run a simple solution:

error FS3033: The type provider 'FSharp.Interop.Excel.ExcelProvider.ProviderImplementation+ExcelProvider' reported an error: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Text.Encoding.CodePages, Version=4.1.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'. Could not find or load a specific file.

I was going to log as an issue but I’m not sure whether the ExcelProvider is actually meant to work on .net core yet?

Known workarounds

Use full framework? Code works fine when running from .fsx, and intellisense (Ionide in vscode) is working correctly at design time.

Related information

• Using ExcelProvider 1.0.1.
• Tried with dotnet SDK versions 2.2.202 and 3.0.100-preview3-010431.
• Tried specifying TargetFramework of netcoreapp2.1 and netcoreapp3.0 respectively in .fsproj.
• Tried manually referencing System.Text.Encoding.CodePages in solutions using both the dotnet add package ... and paket add ... with local /packages folder approaches.

[drk-mtr]

Thanks for the help! Unfortunately I can’t get that working, but I may have misunderstood where I need to register it. I’ve tried this:

open FSharp.Interop.Excel
open System.Text

type Xl = ExcelFile<"Book1.xlsx">

[<EntryPoint>]
let main argv =

    Encoding.RegisterProvider(CodePagesEncodingProvider.Instance)
    let xl = Xl().Data
    printfn "%s" (xl |> Seq.map (fun s -> s.test1.ToString()) |> String.concat "" )

    0

Also tried moving the Encoding... line outside of the main method and putting do in front of it but no joy.

[quintusm]

This issue should be resolved with Version 2.0.0 release which is only targeting netstandard 2.0