Multi-target project won't load the right packages

Question

Hi,

I have a multi-targeting project with the following csproj content:

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFrameworks>netstandard2.0;netstandard2.1</TargetFrameworks>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore">
      <Version Condition="'$(TargetFramework)' == 'netstandard2.0'">Version="[2.*,5.*)"</Version>
      <Version Condition="'$(TargetFramework)' == 'netstandard2.1'">5.*</Version>
    </PackageReference>
  </ItemGroup>
</Project>

Interestingly, the EF Core 2.0 package is referenced to the .NET Standard 2.1 target too - whereas I'd want it to reference the 5+ version.
I've also tried replacing 5.* with 5.0.0-rc.1.20451.13, which didn't make any difference.

Thank you

Answer 1

For some reason, specifying the exact version seems to be working now. This might be because I now installed preview version of VS which supports .NET 5 RC.
This code worked:

xml
<ItemGroup>
  <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore">
    <Version Condition="'$(TargetFramework)' == 'netstandard2.0'">[2.0.0,5.0.0)</Version>
    <Version Condition="'$(TargetFramework)' == 'netstandard2.1'">5.0.0-rc.1.20451.13</Version>
  </PackageReference>
</ItemGroup>

Answer 2

Hi shimmy,

You could have a try to use different ItemGroups to specify nuget package:

  <ItemGroup Condition="'$(TargetFramework)' == 'netstandard2.0'">
      <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore">
          <Version>[2.*,5.*)</Version>
      </PackageReference>
  </ItemGroup>

  <ItemGroup Condition="'$(TargetFramework)' == 'netstandard2.1'">
      <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore">
        <Version>5.*</Version>
      </PackageReference>
  </ItemGroup>

Best Regards,
Dylan