.net Core App 1.1 doesn't resolve external .net standard libs as file reference

I created a solution with 2 projects a .net core 1.1 host (console) and a .net standard 1.6 class library.

I add the reference as project refrence.

Then at runtime i get the exception that the assembly of the client is not found. And this at the first place i use a type of the .net standard assembly so my test console looks as trivial as this:

 class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var foo = new Class1();

When I switch the host project to .net core 1.0 everything is working fine.

I published a sample here: https://github.com/Gentlehag/coreapp11bug

Is this expected behavior ?

Which .net standard library version should work with .net core 1.1 ?

In the meanwhile a discussion is here: https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/10037

Solution:

.net core doesn't support file reference at all at this moment. although the ide allowes it...

he .NET Core SDK v1.0 (Visual Studio 2017 RTM) doesn't support direct references to assemblies on disk. Basically the options that will give you success are either or .

We did enable this scenario for 2.0 though. See dotnet/sdk#120, but those bits have not been released yet. They will be when .NET Core 2.0 comes out later this year.

https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/4772#issuecomment-285394790

So the solution is to wrap up in nuget packages or create a solution which adds all existing projects