I made the big mistake of taking some NuGet library updates today. It forced me to either roll back a week's worth of work, or upgrade to ASP .NET Core 3.0. I hate to use stuff that's not production, but I didn't want to untangle the libraries either, so I upgraded. Then it force me to retarget .NET Standard 2.1 libraries. Which I did.
My problem now is with the client UWP code. When I try to compile, I get:
error : Project '..\ClassLibrary1\ClassLibrary1.csproj' targets 'netstandard2.1'. It cannot be referenced by a project that targets 'UAP,Version=v10.0.10586'.
This happens even with a virgin UWP and .NET Standard 2.1 library. Any clues how to make Visual Studio 2019 client code work with the latest upgrade?
All Windows 10 SDKs currently don't support .NET Standard 2.1.
Windows 10 19H2 is using the same SDK number as 19H1, so it is unlikely that it will support .NET Standard 2.1. (But I certainly hope it does.)
Microsoft hasn't made an official announcement, but Windows 10 20H1 is getting a meaningful SDK update, so it is likely that it will support it. And once that's the case, UWP apps will require 20H1 to run (so that will become the minimum supported version).
One of the big issue with this situation is that Entity Framework Core 3.0 requires .NET Standard 2.1, so it can't be used in UWP apps for now (Update: This issue is resolved with Entity Framework Core 3.1 supporting .NET Standard 2.0).
By the way, as an experiment, I was able to fork Entity Framework Core 3.0 (for SQLite) and make it compile on .NET Standard 2.0. I basically had to manually copy a few new APIs from .NET Core 3.0 (like IAsyncXXX). And it worked, so it is an option for people who really need it. Note that, I did not try it with the SQL Server provider.
Update: The UWP team is planning to enable UWP apps to use .NET 5 and that's when UWP will support .NET Standard 2.1 (and more). This could happen in 20H2 or 21H1.
UWP does not support .Net standard 2.1 yet. It only support till .Net standard 2.0 and that too from windows 1709 onwards.
If you look at the link for 2.1 it states
Platform Support
- An upcoming version Universal Windows Platform
so it may be 19H2
UPDATE
Microsoft is going to release a new framework called WinUI 3, this is going to support UWP as well as Win32 based application model. WinUI 3 would support .Net 5 for both the platforms. WinUI 3 preview is going to be available in mid May 2020, with final release in late 2020. WinUI 3 would be supported on windows 10 1803+.
