How to add an assembly reference to a VS 2015 vNext .NET 4.x targeted Project

Question

Visual Studio 2015 supports multiple build targets in a vNext project so you can build for vNext CLR, vNext Core and any other .NET build targets.

I understand that vNext project require that dependencies have to be referenced via NuGet packages, but how can I add assembly references to the non-vNext projects that might require GAC or other external dependencies?

My References structure looks like this:

.NET Framework 4.5 <--- how do I get an GAC/assembly reference into this?
ASP.NET 5.0
ASP.NET Core 5.0

Use case: I'm building a library that can work both on standard CLR and the new vNext CLRs, but the standard version requires access to System.Configuration. How do I get the reference of System.Configuration into the classic .NET 4.5 target?

Stef Heyenrath · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-01 22:15:26Z

It seems you can add framework libraries like "System.Runtime.Serialization" to the "frameworkAssemblies". (But I'm not sure this will also work with GAC.)

See example project.json file:

"net45": { "frameworkAssemblies": { "System.Runtime.Serialization": "4.0.0.0" }, "dependencies": { "System.Reflection": "4.0.10-beta-22416", } }

Yup that works for GAC refs. Or files you explicitly deploy in the bin folder.

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