I've the project.json file with a version specified as { "version": "1.0.0-*" } How can I read it in code?

I'm using VS Update 3 (14.0.25425.01). Here's what I've done: Create ASP.Net Core Web Application (.Net Core) Create Class Library .Net 4.6.2 Add net462 to frameworks, netcoreapp1.0, imports in p...

I have an ASP.NET Core 1.0 complete application running using net461 references. Now I am trying to add another framework - netcoreapp1.0. For this, I have updated my project.json like this: { "u...

I'm looking to convert my project to use project.json format, but still using the .NET CLR until 3rd party dependencies add support for CoreCLR. With that said, some of my NuGet dependencies of fi...

Is project.json going away and web.config coming back in ASP.NET Core 1.0? In the roadmap document, the update in '16 Q4 or '17 Q1, they mention "replacing .xproj/project.json with .csproj/MSBuild...

I have the following script in my project.json file which I am using to build my class library project into a NuGet package. I don't want to build any Debug NuGet packages. How can I limit this scr...

Having created a new ASP.Net Core Web Application (.Net Core) project in Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 and checked this in to a Visual Studio Team Services git repository. I am using the release vers...

I have a .NET 5 web application using the DNX framework, and I want to run 'npm install', 'bower install' and others, whenever I build the project. Right now I'm able to do so on publish, using 'p...

I want to: Make a class library that defines some interfaces and simple generic helper classes. It'll rely on generic collections and IQueryable<T> but no third party dependencies (well, J...

In a new ASP.NET Core RC2 class library, I have the following project.json file, where I have tried to follow the docs on How to trim your package dependencies. { "dependencies": { "Microsoft.A...

I'm trying to upgrade my ASP.NET 5 RC1 projects to ASP.NET Core RC2 projects. I'm having some issues because I'm using libraries that do not yet support .NET Core so I have to run on the full frame...

What exactly are the frameworks and imports sections of the project.json file of a ASP.NET Core 1.0 project and what do they do? I've been trying to find "official" documentation to understand it b...

I have looked at the the ASP.Net 5 teams wiki entry for project.json, to identify which Script Commands are available, and currently the following are listed: { "scripts": { "prebuild": "echo be...

I am trying to develop my first ASP.Net web application and in my solution I have two projects. A Web Application and Class Library (Package) and noticed that the Web App has this for it's framewor...

I can't seem to find a way to make T4 templates in VS 2015 RTM, in an ASP.NET 5 (vNext) project. I even installed the T4 toolbox for Visual Studio 2015 extension, but the tt templates are not tran...

Just installed the rc1 tools and created a new web project to see what has changed in the template. I noticed that project.json now contains: "compilationOptions": { "emitEntryPoint": true } B...

Background: Recently I switched from the "old" world to the new project.json world, because new is always better ;) Currently 2 out of 3 projects can use the "dotnet" target framework moniker, the ...

I have a portable class library project that targets .NET 4.6 and Universal Windows Platform. This class library contains just one class with the following line of code in its constructor: Directo...

When running the following dnu publish, I get an ArgumentNullException exception thrown. dnu publish "C:\Project\MyProject" --out "C:\a" --configuration Debug --runtime dnx-clr-win-x86.1.0.0-beta6...

I created a new ASP.NET 5 MVC 6 (vNext) project in VS 2015. I imported some classes from another project, but looks like the DNX is missing some classes that are very essential to me. Can I choos...