I was recently writing some .NET Core code and I was getting some strange error messages. It was something like…
"Can't parse project.json(1,1)"
This was when I was deploying my application to Azure. As it would turn out, if you do not specify a global.json then Azure will automatically pick the latest version for you. This is a recipe for disaster considering I had not upgraded to the ABSOLUTE latest, as of yet.
As it would turn out, it would seem that in .NET Core 1.1 had migrated to kill off the project.json format in favour of .csproj style a la MSBuild. I was not ready to migrate yet.
The fix is simple: just add a global.json specifying your SDK version. Or it would be, anyway if your file structure was that your app was at the root of the repo. Alas, that was not me so I got the above error message over and over.
The solution was to simply drop global.json into the root directory of my source control folder (and not in
the same directory as the application). Bam,
everything worked.
I hope this helps someone out.