azure devops - Visual studio team services build .net core 1.1

Question

I'm trying to build a .net core 1.1 project on vsts. The project is developed in vs2017 and it uses the csproj instead of project.json. I have tried multiple options to build id on vsts with the hosted agents (windows and linux).

i have tried the following build steps

Visual studio build

Set to use vs 2017 but i get a warning "Visual Studio version '15.0' not found. Looking for the latest version." And then i get errors because it cant include .net core packages.

.NET Core (PREVIEW)

Cant find project.json. When i set it to use csproj file it gives an error "The file type was not recognized"

Command build step

I tried to run the commands with command build steps. "dotnet build" gives the error that it cant find the project.json file.

Anyone building dotnet 1.1 with csproj on vsts that can help me how to do it?

Answer 1

In Visual Studio Team Services, go to Build & Release > Builds and click Edit for the build definition you want to update

Navigate to the Options tab, change Default agent queue to Hosted VS2017, and save.