Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 2.1.1 upgrade "Blocked by project"

Question

I'm trying to upgrade a .net core 2.1 project to the latest version of Nuget packages such as Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.Abstractions 2.1.1.

However this is blocked by the package reference Microsoft.NETCore.App, when I try to upgrade the "meta" package Microsoft.NETCore.App I see "Blocked by project" similar to this question. That was resolved by switching to the newer version of the SDK, however that isn't an option here... because there isn't a newer version of the SDK (yet?).

I've also seen this answer to upgrade specific packages by editing the .csproj file manually with an Update package reference but I doubt that's the intended method of doing this.

How should I go about this? For now I've just manually included the package references I actually use and dropped the meta package but I can't imagine that's the intended way to go about this.

Answer 1

Easy. Was looking for a resolution for this earlier and I all I had to do was just add this in the projects affected.

  <PropertyGroup>
    <RuntimeFrameworkVersion>2.1.1</RuntimeFrameworkVersion>
  </PropertyGroup>

Additionally for .NET Core 3 and beyond,

   <PropertyGroup>
     <TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.1</TargetFramework>
   </PropertyGroup>

There was also an answer posted by Patrick below pointing out that certain projects require the .NET Core App NuGet Package. You won't need that anymore after .NET Core 3.