Convert a Visual Studio project to a dot Net core project csproj to Xproj

2. Delete the csproj file.
4. Rename the Package.config to Project.json.
6. Transform the file to convert the XML to JSON format.

7. <?XML version= "1.0" encoding= "Utf-8"?><Packages>  < PackageID= "Newtonsoft.json"version= "8.0.3"targetframework= "net451" />  < PackageID= "Somecoolpackage"version= "3.0.1"targetframework= "net451" /></Packages>

   After conversion

   {  "dependencies": {    "somecoolpackage": "3.0.1",    "Newtonsoft.json": "8.0.3"   },  " Frameworks ": {    " net45 ": {    }  },  " runtimes ": {    " win ": {}  }}

9. Perform dotnet restore
11. Perform dotnet Build
13. You may encounter an error and try to add a reference to Frmework

    {  "dependencies": {    "somecoolpackage": "3.0.1",    "Newtonsoft.json": "8.0.3"   },  " Frameworks "" Net45 ": {      " frameworkassemblies ": {        " System.Runtime.Serialization ":" 4.0.0.0 ",      }    }  },  " runtimes ": {    " Win ": {}   }}

15. Open Visual Studio and add an existing project.

Convert a Visual Studio project to a dot Net core project csproj to Xproj