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My XUnit Tests won’t run in a .Net Standard 2.0 Class Library

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Firstly, this isn’t a bug, or something that you might have done wrong; it’s intentional. Essentially, you can’t run a .Net Standard Library, so your tests aren’t runnable.

Okay – so I want to convert to .Net Core 3.0!

Yep – that’s exactly what you want, and it’s this easy; open up the csproj file – it’ll look like this:

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>netstandard2.0</TargetFramework>
  </PropertyGroup>

And replace it with this:

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.0</TargetFramework>
  </PropertyGroup>

And that’s it – your tests should now run!