Struggling with Visual Studio 2017, xUnit and .NET standard?

Have you created a class library for tests with XUnit and .NET standard? Doesn’t it work?

I had the same problem and the stackoverflow questions about it didn’t help.
What I did was to create a new temp project from the Visual Studio 2017 command line by running dotnet new xunit. That created a new project file with the correct settings.

As it turns out, you can’t use a .NET Standard class library for xunit. You need to create a .NET core one. All your other libraries can still use .NET Standard.

I edited my own MyProject.Test.csproj. Here’s what it looks like after my edits:

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

<PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.0</TargetFramework>
    <IsPackable>false</IsPackable>
  </PropertyGroup>

<ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="FluentAssertions" Version="4.19.2" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk" Version="15.3.0-preview-20170427-09" />
    <PackageReference Include="xunit" Version="2.2.0" />
    <PackageReference Include="xunit.runner.visualstudio" Version="2.2.0" />
  </ItemGroup>

<ItemGroup>
    <ProjectReference Include="..\SharpMessaging\SharpMessaging.csproj" />
  </ItemGroup>

</Project>

Hope that it helps you too.