Is project.json deprecated?
Is project.json going away and web.config coming back in ASP.NET Core 1.0? In the roadmap document , the update in '16 Q4 or '17 Q1, they mention "replacing .xproj/project.json with .csproj/MSBuild". Does that mark the end of project.json? Update : As of Visual Studio 2017 and the latest dotnet CLI, project.json is officially dead. Visual Studio will migrate projects automatically, and there is a comparison chart here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/articles/core/tools/project-json-to-csproj project.json is indeed going away. As part of a future update to the .NET Core tooling, .xproj