Is OxyPlot.Wpf compatible with .NET Core? - .net-core

Does OxyPlot.Wpf work on .NET Core?
My application uses .NET Framework 4.8. I am considering switching to .NET Core 3.1.5 which was released in 2020 June.
Note OxyPlot has an assembly called OxyPlot.Core but it has nothing to do with .NET Core from what information I have gathered. OxyPlot.Core is "the core library... you also need to add a platform-specific OxyPlot package". This makes it seem that OxyPlot.Wpf depends upon OxyPlot.Core and in fact if you try to uninstall OxyPlot.Core the error will be "unable to uninstall OxyPlot.Core.2.0.0 because OxyPlot.Wpf.2.0.0 depends on it". The online documentation does not seem to tell you this but fortunately NuGet will prevent the uninstall.
This means OxyPlot.Core is the core of OxyPlot and its existence does not necessarily tell you anything explicit about .NET compatibility.

I'd say yes it is compatible. Based on the nuget link https://www.nuget.org/packages/OxyPlot.Wpf

Think you Will find OxyPlot works fine with Wpf .NET Core .. but I cannot say the same for a Winforms .NET Core project I have; at the present time I am having (the usual) enormous difficulty in making it work

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How to properly change target framework to .NET 4.0

I built an application with target framework .NET 4.6 using MVC 5 and Entity Framework 6 using Visual Studio 2017 on my Windows 7 machine. I'm now being told that I should have built the application to target .NET 4.0 because the production environment only has 4.0 installed. So I changed the target framework to 4.0 but now the application will not build on my machine.
I'm guessing I also need to downgrade MVC and EF. How is the proper way of doing this?
And which versions of MVC and EF should I install?
Do I need to make any manual changes to web.config?
There is no "proper" way, you have 3 options, in my favorite order:
Update the server and install the latest .net version. (at the time .net 4.6). Make sure used libraries are up to date and not end of life.
Start over in a new project and make sure you target version 4.0: you can copy most of your source files. You'll probably get some compiler errors, but usually they are easily fixed. This way you'll have the benefit that the used template matches the framework and packages version(s).
Re-target the used framework in the project properties and replace the packages which are installed and hope for the best (sometimes you need other packages). Hopefully you used the package manager to install those packages. Maybe the update-packages command helps, but be sure to backup your project first. Some packages become obsolete after time, some are renamed. This is what will cause issues. Also, some of the Methods/API calls will be different, so some rework will be needed.
As for the rest of your questions:
I'm guessing I also need to downgrade MVC and EF. How is the proper way of doing this?
Use the nuget package manager
And which versions of MVC and EF should I install?
The nuget package manager will fix this for you.
Do I need to make any manual changes to web.config?
Sometimes: yes.

Project not compatible with netcoreapp2.0

I'm trying to add a full framework class library as a project reference to asp.net core 2.0 MVC project and getting the below error.
Project XYZ is not compatible with netcoreapp2.0 (.NETCoreApp,Version=v2.0).
Project XYZ supports: net462 (.NETFramework,Version=v4.6.2)
I have updated to the most recent version of Visual studio i.e, 15.3.5.
Is it even possible to reference 4.6.2 libraries in core 2.0 projects?
The first thing that you can try is to compile the library you want to consume as netstandard2.0.
Theoretically (according to the .net standard documentation), this will make it compatible with projects using net461 and later as well as netcoreapp2.0 and later.
In practice, sometimes you will end up with a problem with one of your dependencies that don't provide the same library version across different compilation targets.
In such cases you may simply need to add the .net core 2.0 as a target framework for the XYZ library.
The xml tag listing the targets is <TargetFrameworks> in the XYZ.csproj file and is not handled by the Gui of the project's properties.
So I would give a try at editing the XYZ.csproj by hand and add or replace what's listed as <TargetFrameworks> with netcoreapp2.0.
If you are adding it as additional target you need to separate them with ';' as in
<TargetFrameworks>net462;netstandard2.0;netcoreapp2.0</TargetFrameworks>
More details about this in this Microsoft doc.
Please keep in mind that this will trigger multiple compilations and will slow your build consequently...
It should be. Microsoft announced a ".NET Framework Compatibility Mode" with the release of .NET Standard 2.0. However, they didn't go into great detail about how it works exactly, or what to troubleshoot if it doesn't. Additionally, they only specific talk about it in relationship to Nuget packages, so it's possible there's some role Nuget is playing in the process, as well. Unfortunately, I've been unable to find any additional information about this feature outside of the announcement post.
That said, Microsoft's explicit recommendation is to not rely on the fact that your .NET Framework library may just happen to work in .NET Core; instead, you should be actively porting .NET Framework libraries you control to .NET Standard. I'd say you're likely going to spend more time trying to figure out why it doesn't "just work" than you would porting your code, so that it will definitely work, and be future-proof to boot.
The following solution worked for me.
Deleted bin and obj folders from all the projects in the solution, rebuild and if it still doesn't work try changing browser from debug options. for eg. If you already have chrome as default browser in Visual studio, switch to Edge or Firefox.

Installing MVC on asp.net Core in visual Studio 2015

I created an empty ASP.NET 5 to work with .NET Core. I am trying to add MVC package to the application but I am receiving an Error that the Versions are not compatible, although I tried lots of MVC versions.
Anyone has an idea about the problem? thank you!
You need Nuget packages in the Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc namespace. You're currently trying to install Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc 5.2.3, which is the traditional MVC package and only works with full .NET.
If you're working with .NET Core you should be using Microsoft.AspNetCore.* packages. (Microsoft.AspNet.* packages target the full .NET framework.)
Your screenshot shows a dependency on DNX. You do realize that's a pre-release technology? I don't mean to be rude but I'm curious as to why you would be targeting the pre-release framework rather than RTM (which has been available for several months).
If you do want to work with the prerelease bits, you may need to tweak your NuGet feeds to be able to see the appropriate .NET Core packages (I definitely had to do this when working with .NET Core betas).

XSD/Schema validation workaround in .net core?

I got from https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/3633, that XSD Schema Validation now is not yet supported, and planned in .Net Core 1.2.0 whose release date is Spring, 2017.
However it's one of the key features of our product, so it somehow has to be supported. Now .Net Standard doesn't even have System.Xml.Schema when we thought to temporarily use full .net core, yet doesn't help.
Before v1.2.0, is there any workaround to do the xsd schema validation?
If you need some functionality that needs to be run in .Net Core library, you may try to port your product with portable library workaround.
However, it's nearly the .NET Core 2.0 Preview time, so you may basically wait for it.

Differences between .Net Full framework and the .Net Core Framework 4.5 used by K runtime?

I've seen videos introducing ASP.NET vNext and been keeping up with the recent announcement blog posts, but detailed information on what's been stripped from the full framework appears slim. Here's what I think I know so far:
It's much smaller (11MB vs >200MB): http://davidzych.com/2014/05/24/getting-started-with-asp-net-vnext/
Strong naming is gone: http://jeremydmiller.com/2014/06/09/final-thoughts-on-nuget/
It's dumped System.Web
It includes a merged MVC and WebAPI (however I don't believe this is part of the framework itself but rather dependencies that can be specified)
Dependencies are completely managed through project.json, to the extent that the base
Are we basically looking at a framework that basically includes nothing more than what's in mscorlib in the full framework, with all else delivered via package management? And if this is the case, why would one need to target the framework specifically, as described here? http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2014/06/17/dependency-injection-in-asp-net-vnext.aspx
The reason they specifically target NET45 in the link you supplied is because AutoFac is built for and has a dependency on .NET 4.5. Without NET45 the code wouldn't compile.
My assumption is that once vNext gets closer and closer to release the Autofac (and StructureMap, and Castle Windsor, and ...) will release a version that targets the cloud optimized framework to remove the dependency.
As far as I understand, .Net Framework is the fully framework we know and love with all the Windows implementations and lots of code we don't normally use, like they explain in some videos an XML parser.
In .NET Core they removed all the unneeded implementations/dependecies and only left the basic ones. which also enables cross platform (not yet), so in the future one could think as the only framework : CORE Framework, and run on any device. Their february community standup give a lots of information and insight on their objectives and goals.
I see this as a transition, when some features are available only on the full Framework while in the futures one might expect to see all features available for .NET Core.
From a Microsoft perspective, if they want to release lets say Entity Framework for mobile (EF7 is aiming at that) they must get rid of all the windows implementations, on EF and it's dependencies (Framework). So they created a non-windows dependency on the framework, which also helps the multiple framework install and remove some problems with updating the framework by having them mostly isolated from the system, lying in the application. New problems will come like multiple copies of the same framework on one machine per application, that's why they are working on something called Smart Sharing.
This post may help you and give you some insight specially this part :
The structure of .NET Core is comprised of two major components which
add to and extend the capabilities of the .NET Framework as follows:
Runtime:
Built on the same codebase as the .Net Framework CLR. Includes the
same GC and JIT (RyuJIT) Does not include features like Application
Domains or Code Access Security. The runtime is delivered on NuGet
(Microsoft.CoreCLR package)
Base class libraries:
Are the same code as the .Net Framework class libraries but do not
contain dependencies so have a smaller footprint. Available on NuGet
(System.* package)
and I guess you already read Introducing .NET Core from Microsoft.
Regarding your concern about specifying a specific framework is because right now, not everything works on Core CLR so you must choose which one to use, or you can target both and use different implementations.
As of right now, CORE only runs on Windows; the mono framework doesn't have a SQLLite provider for entity framework but it does on Core, so you can use an InMemory or Azure EF provider for example, and choose depending on the enviroment your application is running.
As Scott Gu says on the community standup, they envision a future where there's no mono framework or full framework, there's just Core, but that will take time if it ever happens.
I can't find an original source other than a comment by David Fowler (I believe) on a presentation from NDC, but CoreCLR used by the K Runtime is actually a reincarnation of the CLR used by Silverlight 2. It was used because it's small and designed to be cross platform. There is some additional information here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25720160/113225

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