I want to remove the TargetFramework specifier from my project files and pass it via the commandline. Sounds easy:
dotnet build -f net5
But the big problem is the NuGet aspect. Because
dotnet restore
complains about the missing framework:
dotnet restore common\common.csproj Determining projects to restore... C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.400\Sdks\Microsoft.NET.Sdk\targets\Microsoft.NET.TargetFrameworkInference.targets(92,5): error NETSDK1013: The TargetFramework value '' was not recognized. It may be misspelled. If not, then the TargetFrameworkIdentifier and/or TargetFrameworkVersion properties must be specified explicitly.
The problem is that dotnet restore
does not accept a TargetFamework argument. So I am forced to write the TargetFramework into the config file: Even worse, there is always a single NuGet restoration in the obj
directories, so upon every switch between target frameworks I need to modify the config file and do a fresh restore. This is extremely cumbersome and I wonder how this can be avoided.
If this cannot be solved I would kick out NuGet and reference the package assemblies directly.
Since dotnet restore
and dotnet build
are wrappers around dotnet msbuild
, you can use all MSBuild switches to change behavior of build system.
Here we need to set target framework, which can be done by
<TargetFramework>net5.0</TargetFramework>
OR
dotnet restore -p:TargetFramework=net5.0
OR