Update SF application projects to .NET Core / .NET 5 format.

[tuhland]

Nothing major, but is it possible to update the SF application project / template to NET. Core / .NET 5? Or is there something holding this back?

(Missed the Q&A yesterday, So I'm trying it this way. Point me to somewhere else if it's not the right place)

Assignees: /cc @microsoft/service-fabric-triage

[WhitWaldo]

@tuhland Note that .NET 5.0 is not yet supported in SF and isn't expected to be until the next major release early next year. There's a thread about this at https://github.com/microsoft/service-fabric/issues/1081.

[tuhland]

I know, I commented in that issue as well. The main benefit of this request would be, to be able to build the SF application with dotnet instead of MSBuild. Having mixed build pipelines led to some issues in the past. So I thought it could maybe be updated.

[LeroyK]

@tuhland You mean SDK-style project format right?

[tuhland]

Yep. That's it.

I want to be able to build it with dotnet.exe instead of a specific MSBuild.

[IvanAlekseev]

Here is a 3 years old issue asking the same #885 Is there any chance that it will be ever done?

[ghost]

@tuhland Just speaking as another user of sfproj, we were able to build with dotnet sdk while using the "old style" project format. I wrote about our workaround on the issue IvanAlekseev linked to, #885

[WhitWaldo]

@athinanthny Any update on whether this is on any of the near-term roadmaps?